Entry for STREPTOCARPUS Saxorum Engl. [family GESNERIACEAE]
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 503, (1905) Author: (By J. G. Baker and C. B. Clarke.)
Names
STREPTOCARPUS SaxorumEngl. [family GESNERIACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 154. —Engl. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 363, t. 43, fig. K—M.
Information
Small undershrub; stem becoming almost woody, glabrate. Leaves (blade) 3/4–1 by 1/3 in., thick, very hairy on both surfaces; margin subentire; base often cuneate; nerves 6 pairs; petioles 1/8– 1/4 in. long. Peduncles from the upper axils solitary, 5 in. long, 1-flowered, nearly glabrous. Calyx 1/10 in. long; lobes ovate, not tipped by a gland, clothed by many many-celled hairs, few gland-tipped. Corolla 1 1/4 in. long, blue; tube 1/2 in. long, sub-cylindric; 3-lobed lip much exceeding the 2-lobed lip. Filaments glabrous not dilated. Ovary very hairy. Capsule 2 in. long
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Usambara, Holst, 3388! Kwa Chiropa, Hannington!
