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Sericocomopsis bainesii

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Identification
Sericocomopsis bainesii (Hook.f.) Schinz [family AMARANTHACEAE ] Marcellia bainesii (Hook.f.) C.B.Clarke [family AMARANTHACEAE ] Leucosphaera bainesii (Hook.f.) Gilg [family AMARANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Sericocoma bainesii Hook.f. [family AMARANTHACEAE ]
Related name
  • Sericocoma bainesii
  • Marcellia bainesii
  • Leucosphaera bainesii
  • Sericocomopsis bainesii

Flora

Entry for MARCELLIA Bainesii C. B. Cl. [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 402, (1912) Author: By T. COOKE and C. H. WRIGHT.
Names
MARCELLIA Bainesii C. B. Cl. [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 51
Sericocoma Bainesii Hook. f. [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 31; Schinz in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 1A, 107, 106, fig. 60.
Sericocomopsis Bainesii Schinz [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 185, and in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. Append. iii. 65.
Leucosphæra Bainesii Gilg [family ], in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. i. 153; Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 41, xxx. 107.
Information
a much-branched undershrub, up to 18 in. high; branches terete, clothed with soft white hairs; leaves obovate-elliptic, 10 lin. long, 3 lin. wide, acute, tapering to the base, densely white silky-tomentose on both surfaces; spikes subglobose, about 6 lin. in diam.; clusters consisting of 1–2 fertile and 2–4 sterile flowers; bracts lanceolate, 3 lin. long, acuminate, scarious, silky outside; bracteole ovate, acuminate, much shorter than the bracts; perianth-segments lanceolate, acuminate, 2 lin. long, silky; staminal cup nearly as long as the hairy ovary; utricle densely hairy. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa.
Distribution
WESTERN REGION Great Namaqualand; Ganab, Schinz, 249; Nanas, Fleck, 176a; Keetmanshoop, Fleck, 172a.

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