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Saintpaulia ionantha

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Name

Identification
Saintpaulia ionantha H.Wendl. [family GESNERIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Saintpaulia ionantha
Common name
  • saintpaulia; African violet., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2

Flora

Entry for SAINTPAULIA ionantha Wendl. [family GESNERIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol IV, Part 2, page 503, (1905) Author: (By J. G. Baker and C. B. Clarke.)
Names
SAINTPAULIA ionantha Wendl. [family GESNERIACEAE], in Gartenfl. xlii. 321, t. 1391, and 323, Abbild. 66. —Bull. Soc. Tosc. Ort. 1894, 13, fig. 1; Neub. Gartenmag. 1894, 362, fig. 97; Engl. in Engl. Pflanzenw. Ost-Afr. C. 362; Fritsch in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam., iv. 3 B. 185.
Information
Stemless, hairy. Leaves many; blade 1 1/2 by 1 1/4 in., ovate or subcordate, thin in texture, regularly crenate, clad on both surfaces with many small hairs and a few scattered very long multicellular white hairs; petioles 1–2 in. long. Peduncles 1–4 in. long, 1–6-flowered. Calyx-lobes 1/6 in. long, linear. Corolla 3/5 in. in diam.; lobes not very unequal. Filaments glabrous; pollen 25 μ in diam., globose. Capsule about 5 lin. long, narrowly oblong.
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Usambara, Buchwald, 149!

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