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Flora
Entry for PROTEA Elliottii C. H. Wright [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 ElliottiiC. H. Wright [family PROTEACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1909, 328.
Information
A shrub. Branches white-pilose when young, glabrescent. Leaves broadly ovate, 5 1/2 in. long, 2 3/4 in. wide, obtuse, cuneate and almost petioled at the base, pilose when young, coriaceous, light green; secondary nerves ascending, prominent on both surfaces; marginal veins thick. Heads terminal, globose, 4 1/2 in. in diam.; bracts adpressed-silky outside, outer broadly ovate, inner oblanceolate, obtuse, 2 in. long, 5 lin. wide. Perianth 1 3/4 in. long, densely shaggy, and with a tuft of hairs 4 lin. long at the base; upper lip boat-shaped, lower narrow. Anthers linear, 3 1/2 lin. long; connective subulate above. Style a little longer than the perianth; stigma small.
