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Pycnocoma laurentii

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Holotype of Pycnocoma laurentii De Wild. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]

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Identification

Pycnocoma laurentii De Wild. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Argomuellera macrophylla Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Leonard J., 1995

Flora

Entry for ARGOMUELLERA macrophylla Prain Var. Laurentii [family EUPHORBIACEAE]

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)

Flora of Tropical Africa

Reference Sources

Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 441, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)

ARGOMUELLERA macrophylla Prain Var. Laurentii [family EUPHORBIACEAE]

Pycnocoma Laurentii De Wild. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Études Fl. Baset Moyen-Congo, ii. 285.

Leaves slightly undulate, not toothed.

Congo South Central Kasai; Bumbaye, Laurent!

This variety has, in the only specimen seen, a solitary terminal female flower. In the form of typical A. macrophylla described as Pycnocoma hirsuta, Prain, this is also the case; in the form described as P. parviflora, Pax, all the flowers in all the glomerules are male.