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Protea angolensis

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Name

Identification
Protea angolensis Welw. [family PROTEACEAE ]
Related name
  • Protea angolensis
Common name
  • katumbaga (Aub.) (GUINEA, LIGBI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • dagué tulu (Aub.) dagué tulu (Aub.) sensélé tulu (A Chev.) sésé tulu (Aub.) sésé tulu (Aub.) sinsi (A Chev.) (GUINEA, MANINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4
  • dagué tulu (Aub.) dagué tulu (Aub.) sésé tulu (Aub.) sésé tulu (Aub.) (GUINEA, MANDING-BAMBARA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4

Flora

Entry for PROTEA angolensis Welw. [family PROTEACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 193, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
PROTEA angolensis Welw. [family PROTEACEAE], Apont. 586. —Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 196; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 165.
Leucodendron angolense Hiern. [family ], in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 917, partly.
Information
A shrub or rarely small tree up to 10 ft. high. Stem erect, up to 4 in. in diam. Leaves elliptic or ovate, up to 5 in. long and 2 1/4 in. wide, usually obtuse, cuneate at the base, glabrous, coriaceous; main veins pinnate, smaller ones reticulate and obvious on both surfaces; marginal veins thickened. Head terminal, 5 in. in diam.; bracts rigid except at the membranous margin, obtuse, outermost 3 lin. long, innermost oblanceolate, 2 1/2 in. long, 7 lin. wide, silky pubescent outside at first, soon glabrous and reddish. Perianth 2 1/2 lin. long, white to rosy, angular below, filiform and almost glabrous in the central part, larger and densely hairy in the upper 5 lin. Anthers linear, 5 lin. long. Ovary subtended by brownish silky hairs 8 lin. long; style only slightly longer than the perianth.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Pungo Andongo; in wooded places near Banza de Bumba and Condo, 3500 ft., Welwitsch, 1590! Huilla; at the outskirts of rather open forests near the River Monino, Welwitsch, 1598! open forest above Huilla, 5600 ft., Pearson, 2652! Malange district, Gossweiler, 1018! Feira, Buchner, 54.Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Fwambo, south of Lake Tanganyika, 5250 ft., Nutt!

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