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Psilotrichum schimperi

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Name

Identification
Psilotrichum angustifolium Gilg [family AMARANTHACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet., Psilotrichum schimperi Engl. [family AMARANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Digera arvensis
  • Psilotrichum gramineum
  • Psilotrichum camporum
  • Hermstaedtia unrecorded
  • Psilotrichum angustifolium
  • Psilotrichum schimperi

Flora

Entry for PSILOTRICHUM Schimperi Engl. [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
PSILOTRICHUM Schimperi Engl. [family AMARANTHACEAE], Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 207. —Schinz in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 1A, 111.
Information
Glabrous, except the flowers, 18 in. high, repeatedly branched. Leaves 2 by 1/6 in., linear-oblong, obtuse, subsessile. Spikes at the end of the branches 1–2 in. long, linear, lengthening in fruit to 5 in., green; small quasi-axillary spikes also added. Perianth-segments broadly elliptic, 3-nerved, minutely hairy. Stamens of the genus. Ovary obovoid; style shorter than the ovary; stigma small, capitate.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Begemeder; region of the River Reb, Schimper, 1388

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