Persicaria senegalensis(Meisn.) Soják [family POLYGONACEAE], (1974). [type as above]
Information
Erect or ascending perennial, 0.5–3 m tall, glabrous to white-tomentose, undersides of leaves and inflorescences dotted with minute glands (sometimes obscured by the tomentum). Ochreae usually fringed with some up to 5 mm long cilia. Leaves petiolate, oblong-lanceolate, 12–27 x 2.5–6.5 cm, acute or acuminate. Spikes dense-flowered; bracts glabrous or fringed with very short cilia. Perianth pink, greenish or white, 3–5 mm long; tepals 4. Nut lens-shaped with concave faces, 2.5–3 mm long, black, glossy.
Range
N1; C2; S1–3 widespread in tropical and southern Africa, also Madagascar.
White-tomentose plants have been described as forma albotomentosum R. Graham in Kew Bull. 1956: 258 (1956). Rossitto 1/80 is a representative of this from S2.
