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Pentarrhinum abyssinicum

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Identification
Pentarrhinum abyssinicum Decne. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE ]
Related name
  • Pentarrhinum abyssinicum

Flora

Entry for PENTARRHINUM abyssinicum Decne. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 4, Part 1, page 231, (1904) Author: (By N. E. Brown.)
Names
PENTARRHINUM abyssinicum Decne. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in DC. Prod. viii. 553. —Decne. in Delessert, Icon. Select. v. 30, t. 70; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 36; Vatke in Oest. Bot. Zeitschr. 1876, 146, and in Linnæa, xl. 215; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 342; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 323; in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 234, fig. 68, K., and 244; and in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 38.
Information
 Stem, leaves and inflorescence undistinguishable from P. insipidum. Coronal-lobes 1 lin. long, nearly or quite twice as long as the staminal-column, rather thin, slipper-shaped, rounded at the apex, with a decurved horn or point overhanging the shallow or narrowly funnel-shaped cavity formed by the infolded margins, or directed over the anthers. staminal-column 1/2 lin. long, much shorter than in P. insipidum, the horny anther-wings also shorter.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Adowa, Quartin-Dillon & Petit, 201! without precise locality, Schimper, 399!Somaliland Nile Land near Giacorse, Riva, 213, 220, and on a plain at Salvati, Riva, 1554 (ex Schumann).Uganda Nile Land two days' march from Nandi, Whyte!

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