Palisota preussianaK.Schum. [family COMMELINACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Daramola, B. O., 1972
Related name
Palisota preussiana
Flora
Entry for PALISOTA preussiana K. Schum. [family COMMELINACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 8, page 25, (1902) Author: (By C. B. Clarke.)
Names
PALISOTA preussianaK. Schum. [family COMMELINACEAE], (MS.?), in Preuss, Exsicc. 996.
Information
Young parts shaggy with greyish hair. Stem 3 ft. long, 1/6 in. in diam., with long internodes and distant falsely-opposite leaves. Leaves 10 by 3 in., oblong, acuminate at either end, very glabrate except at the densely fulvous hairy margins; uppermost pair close to the inflorescence hardly smaller than the basal leaves. Inflorescence 3 1/2 by 1 in., cylindric, very dense with 200–300 flowers; bracts concealed by the flowers; pedicels hardly 1/6 in. long, persistent. Ovary glabrous. Fruit not seen.
