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Protea trichanthera

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Name

Identification
Protea trichanthera Baker [family PROTEACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Beard, J., Protea angolensis Welw. [family PROTEACEAE ] Verified by Chisumpa, S.M.; Brummitt, R.K., Protea angolensis Welw. [family PROTEACEAE ] Verified by Beard, J.,
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Flora

Entry for PROTEA trichanthera Baker [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 trichanthera Baker [family PROTEACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1909, 329.
Information
A shrub, with finely hairy branches. Leaves shortly but distinctly petioled, oblong, 5–6 in. long, 2 1/2–3 in. broad, very obtuse, deltoid or rather rounded at the base, rigidly coriaceous, dark green and glabrous on the upper surface, paler and densely pubescent beneath; lateral nerves fine, raised, uniting in distinct intramarginal arches. Heads globose, 3 in. in diam.; inner and central bracts oblong, 6 lin. wide, matted with drab tomentum on the back in the lower part, naked towards the tip. Perianth 2 in. long, glabrous from the base above the middle, densely clothed with soft spreading drab hairs in the upper swollen part. Anthers linear, hairy, 9 lin. long. Ovary densely hairy; style not exserted.
Distribution
Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Tanganyika Plateau at Fort Hill, 3500–4000 ft., Whyte.

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