Isotype of Protea petiolarisWelw. [family PROTEACEAE ] Verified by Beard, J., Protea petiolaris(Hiern) Baker & C.H.Wright [family PROTEACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
Protea petiolaris
Leucadendron petiolare
Flora
Entry for PROTEA petiolaris Welw. ex Engl. [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 petiolarisWelw. ex Engl. [family PROTEACEAE], Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 197.
Leucadendron petiolareHiern. [family PROTEACEAE], in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 920.
Information
A tree up to 20 ft. high; trunk 1/2–1 1/2 ft. in diam. at the base; branches spreading, glabrate; branchlets shaggy, densely leafy. Leaves oblanceolate or narrowly oblong, obtuse, tapering to the base, 3 in. long, 6 lin. wide, rigidly coriaceous, glabrous, margin membranous; nerves numerous and slender, finely reticulated, equally conspicuous on both surfaces, none truly marginal; petiole about 1 1/2 in. long. Heads numerous, more or less oblique at the ends of branchlets, globose, almost hidden by the leaves; bracts glabrous or silky, ciliate, outer ovate or semicircular, 2 lin. long, inner up to 2 1/4 in. long, oblong. Perianth up to 2 1/4 in. long, pilose or sometimes glabrous above. Ovary densely clothed with rusty hairs; style nearly 2 in. long.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Huilla; in open forests in Morro de Lopollo, above 5600 ft., Welwitsch, 1597! slopes leading down to Lubango, 6200 ft., Pearson, 2648!
