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Protea uhehensis

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Name

Identification
Protea uhehensis Engl. [family PROTEACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet., Protea welwitschii Engl. [family PROTEACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Protea welwitschii
  • Protea uhehensis

Flora

Entry for PROTEA uhehensis 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 uhehensis Engl. [family PROTEACEAE], Jahrb. xxviii. 380.
Information
A shrub about 3 ft. high, or sometimes a tree nearly 7 ft. high. Branches densely leafy, softly pilose. Leaves coriaceous, sessile, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, white-arachnoid on both surfaces, 4–6 in. long, up to 2 in. wide; lateral nerves ascending, prominent on both surfaces. Bracts in 5 series, white-pilose outside and on the margins, outer ovate, 4 lin. long, innermost oblong, nearly 1 1/2 in. long. Perianth about 1 1/2 in. long, very densely clothed with hairs, brownish in the lower part, rosy above; lobes as long as the tube. Anthers narrowly linear, about 7 lin. long.
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Uhehe; northern Uchungwe Mountains, on the undulating Higulu Plateau, 5880 ft., Goetze, 720. Higher plateau north of Lake Nyasa, Thomson!Rhodesia Mozamb. Dist. Chimanimani Mountains, 4000 ft., Johnson, 131!

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