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Scrophularia rostrata

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Identification
Scrophularia gaubae Bornm. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet., Scrophularia rostrata Boiss. & Buhse [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Scrophularia rostrata
  • Scrophularia gaubae
  • Scrophularia arguta

Flora

Entry for SCROPHULARIA arguta Soland. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
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 264, (1905) Author: (By W. Botting Hemsley and S. A. Skan).
Names
SCROPHULARIA arguta Soland. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, ii. 342. —Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 305; Vatke in Linnæa, xliii. 306; Almagià in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, viii. 139; Webb & Berth. Iles Canaries, Phyt. iii. iii., 131, t. 177.
SCROPHULARIA rostrata Hochst. ex Boiss. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Fl. Orient. iv. 395.
Information
An erect more or less glandular-pubescent annual, 6 in. to 2 ft. high; stem simple or with a few straight ascending branches. Leaves up to 2 3/4 in. long and 2 in. broad, broadly ovate, acute, subcordate, truncate or cuneate at the base, irregularly dentate or bidentate; petiole 1/2–1 in. long. Cymes 2–5-flowered or sometimes reduced to one flower, shortly pedunculate, forming a rigid leafy or sometimes almost leafless thyrsus; pedicels 1–3 1/2 lin. long; bracteoles setaceous, very small. Calyx 1 1/4 lin. long; segments ovate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute. Corolla urceolate, rather longer than the calyx. Stamens included; staminode orbicular-obcordate. Capsule 2 1/4–3 1/2 lin. long, ovoid, beaked, glabrous.
Distribution
Nubia Nile Land Hor Tamanib, Lord! Coast region, Bent!Eritrea Nile Land various localities, Terracciano & Pappi.Abyssinia Nile Land Tacazze Valley, Schimper, 1428!Somaliland Nile Land Serrut Mountains, 4900ft., near Maid, Hildebrandt, 1407! and without precise locality, Mrs. Lort Phillips!
Distribution (external)
Europe
North Africa
Canary Islands
Arabia
Socotra

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