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Stachytarpheta jamaicensis

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Identification
Verbena jamaicensis L. [family VERBENACEAE ] (stored under name); Stachytarpheta jamaicensis (L.) Vahl [family VERBENACEAE ]
Related name
  • Stachytarpheta
  • Verbena indica
  • Stachytarpheta jamaicensis
  • Stachytarpheta surinamensis
  • Stachytarpheta pilosiuscula
  • Stachytarpheta indica
  • Stachytarpheta angustifolia
  • Stachytarpheta bogoriensis
  • Verbena jamaicensis
  • Stachytarpheta friedrichsthalii

Flora

Entry for STACHYTARPHETA indica Vahl [family VERBENACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, page 273, (1900) Author: (by J. G. Baker and O. Stapf)
Names
STACHYTARPHETA indica Vahl [family VERBENACEAE], Schauer in DC. Prod. xi. 564. —Vatke in Linnæa, xliii. 530; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 564.
STACHYTARPHETA jamaicensis Vahl ex Schauer [family VERBENACEAE], loc. cit.; Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 484.
Information
A much-branched annual, 2–3 ft. high with terete nearly glabrous stems Leaves opposite, distinctly petioled, oblong, obtuse, deeply crenate, cuneate at the base, 2–3 in. long. Spikes 1/2–1 ft. long; rhachis 1/6 in. diam., conspicuously hollowed out opposite the flowers; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, 1/4 in. long. Calyx rather shorter than the bract; teeth minute. Corolla-tube slightly longer than the calyx; limb 1/4 in. diam., blue, with a white eye. Capsule rather shorter than the calyx.
Range
Also in Tropical Asia and America.
Distribution
Congo Lower Guinea Stanley Pool, Hens, 83!Congo Lower Guinea Smith!Zanzibar Mozamb. Dist. Hildebrandt, 997!Sierra Leone Upper Guinea Scott-Elliot, 3833! 4162!Gold Coast Upper Guinea Cape Coast Castle, Vogel, 30!Dahomey Upper Guinea Burton!Lagos Upper Guinea Millen!Fernando Po Upper Guinea Mann, 89!

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