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Sericocoma welwitschii

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Identification
Marcellia mirabilis Baill. [family AMARANTHACEAE ] Verified by Paris,B.S.L. , (1886), Sericocoma welwitschii Hook.f. [family AMARANTHACEAE ] Marcelliopsis welwitschii (Hook.f.) Schinz [family AMARANTHACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Sericocomopsis welwitschii
  • Marcelliopsis welwitschii
  • Sericocoma welwitschii
  • Nelsia quadrangula
  • Marcellia mirabilis

Flora

Entry for MARCELLIA mirabilis Baill. [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 mirabilis Baill. [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, i. 625. —Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 888.
MARCELLIA Welwitschii Lopr. [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 40, t. 1, fig. C.
Sericocoma Welwitschii 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, not of Baker.
Information
Glabrous, except the inflorescence. Root long, tough; from its top several branched rigid crooked stems, 3–6 in. long. Leaves 1 by 1/12 in., flat, opposite and apparently whorled. Peduncles terminal, 6 in. long or more; inflorescence a dense spike, ultimately 9 by 1/2 in., but when young 1 in. long. Floral leaves orbicular, thin, 1/5 in. in diameter. Fertile flowers 1/8 in. long. Ovary hairy at the top. Hairs elongated, enveloping the fruits, pale brown, hardly 10 μ in diam., simple, with very long cells, smooth.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Mossamedes; in sandy thickets by the River Bero, Welwitsch, 6508!

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