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Psilotrichum debile

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Identification
Psilotrichum debile Baker [family AMARANTHACEAE ] Pandiaka debilis (Baker) Hiern [family AMARANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Pandiaka welwitschii (Schinz) Hiern [family AMARANTHACEAE ] Verified by Townsend,C.C.,
Related name
  • Pandiaka debilis
  • Psilotrichum unrecorded
  • Psilotrichum debile
  • Pandiaka welwitschii

Flora

Entry for PANDIAKA debilis Hiern. [family AMARANTHACEAE]
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 14, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
PANDIAKA debilis Hiern. [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 894.
Psilotrichum debile Baker [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1897, 279.
Information
The example is 30 in. long, weak, hairy, rooting at the lower nodes with long branches. Leaves opposite, hardly petioled, 1–1 1/4 in. long, obovate, rounded at the top. Spikes 1–1 1/4 by 1/2 in., white; bracteoles about 2/3 the length of the perianth, elliptic, shortly acute, mucronate, hairy. Perianth 1/5– 1/4 in. long; segments oblong, shortly acute, submucronate, with much straight white hair on the back. Staminodes quadrate, with long hairs at the top. Ovary obtusely obovoid at the top.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Pungo Andongo; in Pedras de Guinga, Welwitsch, 6570!

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