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Sericocoma denudata

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Identification
Marcellia denudata (Hook.f.) Lopr. [family AMARANTHACEAE ] Sericocoma denudata Hook.f. [family AMARANTHACEAE ] Marcelliopsis denudata (Hook.f.) Schinz [family AMARANTHACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Sericocoma denudata
  • Marcellia denudata
  • Marcelliopsis denudata

Flora

Entry for MARCELLIA denudata Lopr. [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
MARCELLIA denudata Lopr. [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 41. —Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 889.
Sericocoma denudata Hook. f. [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 30; Schinz in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 1A, 107, in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 182, 183.
Information
Branches 1 ft. long, with internodes 4 in. long. Leaves 1–2 by 1/10 in., upper more or less alternate. Peduncles terminal, 2–3 in. long. Inflorescence in fruit 4–6 by 1/2 in., dense, thickly involved in long pale-brown fine hairs. Bracts to the clusters 1/6 in. long, ovate. Fertile flowers 1/12 in. long. Ovary hairy at the top. Hairs enveloping the fruit hardly 10 μ in diam., simple, with long cells, smooth.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea near Mossamedes, Welwitsch, 6503!

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