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Swertia curtioides

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Identification
Isotype of Swertia curtioides Gilg [family GENTIANACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Swertia usambarensis
  • Swertia curtioides

Flora

Entry for SWERTIA curtioides Gilg [family GENTIANACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 4, Part 1, page 544, (1904) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by N. E. Brown.)
Names
SWERTIA curtioides Gilg [family GENTIANACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 379.
Information
A glabrous annual, 2 1/2–5 in. high; stems slender, simple, or with about 1 branch. Leaves 2–5 lin. long, 3/4–2 lin. broad; basal much smaller than the rest, ovate or obovate-oblong, obtuse, subpetiolate; upper sessile, distant, ovate-lanceolate, tapering to an acute point, more or less folded length-wise, spreading. Flowers in terminal 4–11-flowered umbels, 5-merous; pedicels 1/3–1 in. long. Sepals 1–2 1/2 lin. long, 1/3– 3/4 lin. broad, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute. Corolla-lobes 3 1/2–4 1/2 lin. long, 1 1/3–2 lin. broad, elliptic to obovate-oblong, acute or obtuse, with 2 fimbriate nectaries near the base. Stamens 1 3/4–2 lin. long. Ovary ovoid-oblong, scarcely narrowed to the large sessile stigma; stigmatic lobes broader than long, obtuse.
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Ukwama Mountains, Kinga (Livingstone) Range, 8200 ft., Goetze, 913!

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