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Sericocomopsis hildebrandtii

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Name

Identification
Sericocomopsis hildebrandtii Schinz [family AMARANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Sericocomopsis hildebrandtii
  • Cyphocarpa unrecorded
  • Sericocoma hildebrandtii
  • Sericocomopsis meruensis
  • Cyphocarpa hildebrandtii
  • Sericocomopsis grisea

Flora

Entry for CYPHOCARPA Hildebrandtii C. B. Cl. [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
CYPHOCARPA Hildebrandtii C. B. Cl. [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Sericocomopsis Hildebrandtii Schinz [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 184, 185, in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 172, Gilg in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. 152; Lopr. in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 42.
Information
A branched, hairy (not tomentose) undershrub. Leaves opposite; blade 1 1/4 by 3/5 in., elliptic, triangular at either end; petiole 1/10 in. long. Inflorescences 6–7 by 2/3 in., straw-colour; partial inflorescences broadly ovoid, lower standing apart, of 4–12 fertile flowers (being themselves compound). Hairs in the flower-clusters white, very fine, cells rather long, scabrid at the joinings. Fertile flowers 1/5 in. long; perianth-segments lanceolate, subobtuse, sterile flowers not spinescent. Filaments linear to the base, with a quadrate hairy process between each pair; staminal tube very short. Ovary obovoid, glabrous; style longer than the ovary.
Distribution
British East Africa Nile Land Taita, Hildebrandt, 2584

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