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Phrynium macrostachyum

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Name

Identification
Sarcophrynium macrostachyum K.Schum. [family MARANTACEAE ] Verified by Hutchinson, Phrynium macrostachyum [illegible] [family MARANTACEAE ] Megaphrynium macrostachyum (Benth.)Milne-Redhead [family MARANTACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by J.Koechlin,
Related name
  • Sarcophrynium macrostachyum
  • Phrynium macrostachyum
  • Megaphrynium macrostachyum

Flora

Entry for PHRYNIUM Benthami Baker [family MARANTACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 7, page 293, (1898) Author: (By J. G. BAKER.)
Names
PHRYNIUM Benthami Baker [family MARANTACEAE]
PHRYNIUM macrostachyum Benth. [family MARANTACEAE], Gen. Pl. iii. 653 (not of Wallich).
Phyllodes macrostachyum K. Schum. [family ], in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 445.
Information
Whole plant 15 ft. high. Petiole very long, subradical; cylindrical apical callus 3 in. long; leaf broadly oblong, firm, glabrous, 15–18 in. long, 9–10 in. broad, much rounded at the base. Panicle of two branches with peduncles 3–6 in. long springing from the petiole a short distance below the blade; internodes of rhachis 1/6– 1/4 in. long; bracts oblong-navicular, 3/4–1 in. long; peduncle 2-flowered, 1/4 in. long. Fruit globose, 3-seeded, 1/2 in. diam. Seed 1/3 in. long, with a smooth dorsal rib and cupular aril.
Distribution
Ashanti Upper Guinea Assin-Yan-Coomassie, Cummins, 206!Lagos Upper Guinea Millen, 19 of 1896 collection!Cameroons Upper Guinea Ambas Bay, Mann, 1335!

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