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Sibthorpia africana

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Name

Identification
Sibthorpia africana L. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Hedberg, I., Sibthorpia europaea L. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Sibthorpia africana
  • Sibthorpia balearica
  • Sibthorpia europaea

Flora

Entry for SIBTHORPIA europæa Hook. f. var. africana [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
SIBTHORPIA europæa Hook. f. var. africana [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 208. —Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 379, and Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 358.
SIBTHORPIA africana Linn. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Sp. PI. ed. i. 631; Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 428; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 122.
Disandra africana Linn. [family ], Syst. ed. Reich. ii. 137.
Information
A more or less pilose very slender prostrate creeping herb, often rooting at the nodes; stems up to 9 in. long. Leaves suborbicular, 2–9 lin. in diam., with numerous (often 15–20) very small crenate teeth; petiole 1/4–1 1/2 in. long. Peduncles solitary, 1–3 lin. long. Calyx about 1 lin. long, 4- or 5-lobed, conspicuously 4- or 5-nerved; lobes about 1/3 lin. long, ovate, scarcely acute. Corolla yellow or sometimes purple, usually 5-lobed, about 1 lin. long. Stamens usually 4, included. Capsule broadly obovate, pilose at the apex, slightly, emarginate, scarcely as long as the calyx.
Distribution
Cameroons Upper Guinea Cameroon Mountain, 7000 ft., Mann, 1963!Fernando Po Upper Guinea 7500 ft., Mann, 1455!Abyssinia Nile Land Samen; Mount Bachit, about 13,000 ft., Schimper, 1310!German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Kilimanjaro; above Mamba, 8500 f t., Volkens, 785!
Distribution (external)
the Azores
Balearic Isles
Greece
Crete

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