Entry for POLYGONUM barbatum Linn. [family POLYGONACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 459, (1912) Author: By C. H. WRIGHT.
Names
POLYGONUM barbatumLinn. [family POLYGONACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. i. 362;—Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 385; Wight, Ic. t. 1798; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 104; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 226; Aschers. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 170; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 37; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 201; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. ii. 155; De Wild. Études Fl. Bas et Moyen Congo, i. 238; Gage in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. ii. 425; Baker & C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 109.
Information
perennial; stem slender, erect, hairy upwards or throughout; leaves lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed to the base, nearly sessile, usually hairy on both surfaces, the lower 4–6 in. long; racemes cylindrical, slender, 2–3 in. long; peduncles hairy; bracts conspicuously ciliate with rigid bristles; perianth pink, eglandular, 1 lin. long; stamens 6–8; ovary shortly conical; styles 3; nutlet trigonous, small, smooth. null