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Identification
Pentas carnea Benth. [family RUBIACEAE ]
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  • Pentas carnea

Flora

Entry for PENTAS carnea Benth. [family RUBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 33, (1877) Author: (By Mr. W. P. Hiern.)
Names
PENTAS carnea Benth. [family RUBIACEAE], in Bot. Mag. t. 4086 (1844). —Bot. Reg. xxx. t. 32 (1844).
Sipanea carnea Hort. ex Hook. [family RUBIACEAE], in Bot. Mag. l.c.
Mussænda luteola Hochst. [family ], in Hb. Schimp. Abyss. iii. n. 1917, DC. Prodr. iv. p. 371, syn. sub n. 9 (1830), non Del.
Ophiorrhiza lanceolata Forsk. [family RUBIACEAE], ! Fl. Ægypt.-Arab. p. 42 n. 39 (1775)
Manettia lanceolata Vahl [family ], Symb. i. 12 (1790)
Neurocarpæa lanceolata Br. [family ], ! in Salt Abyss. App. (iv.) p. lxiv. (1814)
Vignaldia Quartiniana A. Rich. [family RUBIACEAE], Fl. Abyss. i. 357
PENTAS Quartiniana Oliv. [family RUBIACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. xxix. p. 82, t. 46 (1873)
Pentanisia nervosa Klotzsch [family RUBIACEAE], in Peters Mossamb. pp. 287–288
Pentanisia cymosa Klotzsch [family RUBIACEAE], in Peters Mossamb. pp. 287–288
Pentanisia suffruticosa Klotzsch [family RUBIACEAE], in Peters Mossamb. pp. 287–288, i.e.
Pentas Klotzschii Vatke [family RUBIACEAE], in Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschrift xxv. p. 231 (1875).
Information
An erect or decumbent perennial, almost or quite shrubby below, 1–2 feet high, shortly and rather harshly puberulous, pallid. Leaves ovate elliptical or lanceolate-oblong, acute or subacute at the apex, narrowed at the base into the short petiole, 1–6 by 3/8–2 in.; lateral veins numerous (12–18). Cymes dense or rarely rather lax, 1–3 in. diameter, sessile or pedunculate. Flowers subsessile, pale purple, 2/3–1 in. long, dimorphic. Calyx 1/6– 1/2 in. long or more. Corolla densely hairy at the throat; limb 1/3– 1/2 in. diameter.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Walp. Repert. vi. p. 57 (1846–7).Mozamb. Dist. Kilima-Njaro, Rev. C. New! (a poor specimen with flowers 1 1/3 in. long, apparently referable to this species);Zanzibar Mozamb. Dist. Hildebrandt! 1124 (an undershrub, a metre high, with purple flowers, very like some forms of P. purpurea).Abyssinia Nile Land Quartin Dillon, Schimper! Plowden! Salt, Pearce! Parkyns!;Nile Land rocks at Madi and Ukidi, Speke and Grant!;Somaliland Nile Land Hildebrandt! (var. with decumbent woody branches, small leaves, slender corolla-tubes, limb 1/3 in. diam.)
Distribution (external)
Comoro Islands
among the mountains of Arabia

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