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Pentas purpurea

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Name

Identification
Pentas purpurea Oliv. [family RUBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Fagbemi, A, 1979
Related name
  • Pentas salvifolia
  • Pentas purseglovei
  • Vignaldia unrecorded
  • Pentas zanzibarica
  • Pentas stolzii
  • Pentas purpurea
  • Pentas unrecorded

Flora

Entry for PENTAS purpurea Oliv. [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 purpurea Oliv. [family RUBIACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. xxix. p. 83 (1873).
Pentanisia zanzibarica Klotzsch [family RUBIACEAE], in Peters Mossamb. p. 286
Pentas zanzibarica Vatke [family RUBIACEAE], in Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr, xxv. p. 232 (1875)
Vignaldia sp. 2 T. Thoms. [family RUBIACEAE], in Speke, Journ., App. p. 636.
Information
An erect perennial, 1–3 feet high somewhat shrubby at the base with wiry deeply set rootstock. Stem branches and leaves more or less pubescent or somewhat hispid. Leaves lanceolate ovate or narrowly elliptical, acute at the apex, attenuated or sometimes obtuse or rounded subsessile or shortly petiolate at the base; 1–4 1/2 by 1/4–1 1/2 in. Cymes dense subglobose or hemispherical, 1–2 in. diameter mostly sessile. Flowers subsessile, purple or lilac, 3/8– 1/2 in. long, dimorphic. Calyx hairy or nearly glabrous, 1/6– 1/4 (or in fruit 3/8 or more) in. long. Corolla pilose at the throat; limb 1/5– 1/4 in. diameter. Filaments of the exserted anthers slender, of the included anthers obsolete.
Distribution
Zanzibar Mozamb. Dist. Peters! Speke and Grant!; Hildebrandt! (flowers lilac); Mombas, Kirk! Bojer!;Pemba Island Mozamb. Dist. Bojer!;Mozamb. Dist. Manganja Hills, near M'bame villages and near Soche Hill, alt. 3000 feet, Kirk!Nile Land Usui, ° 41′ S. Lat., alt. 4000 feet, Speke and Grant!
Notes
There appears to be a continuity between this and the previous species.

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