Pandiaka lanuginosa(Schinz) Schinz [family AMARANTHACEAE ] Verified by Clarke, C. B., Pandiaka lanuginosa(Schinz) Schinz [family AMARANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Townsend, C. C.,
Related name
Pandiaka lanuginosa
Flora
Entry for PANDIAKA lanuginosa (Schinz) Schinz [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by C. C. Townsend [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Weak perennial, straggling or scandent, 0.3–1.2 m, rooting at the lower nodes, much-branched; stem and branches subglabrous to ± densely pilose with fine appressed hairs. Leaves elliptic to lanceolate, (2–)4–10 x (1–) 1.3–4.2 cm, sparingly to moderately appressed-pilose, acuminate to rather blunt, cuneate and petiolate below. Inflorescence silvery- or yellowish-green to pale mauve, c. 2–26 x 1.2–1.4 cm, much elongated in fruit, axis lanuginose. Flowers spreading, finally indurate at the base and ± deflexed; tepals narrowly oblong-lanceolate, the 2 outer 4.5–7 mm, 3–5-nerved with the nerves frequently branched above, densely lanuginose except at the aristate tip; inner 2 not aristate, 3-nerved, chiefly lanuginose on the central dorsal surface; central tepal intermediate. Pseudostaminodes with a densely long-fimbriate dorsal scale. Style slender, 2–3.5 mm, (?always) red.