Hygrophila brevitubaBurkill [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Synnema brevitubumBurkill [family ACANTHACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
Cardanthera unrecorded
Hygrophila unrecorded
Cardanthera parviflora
Synnema brevitubum
Synnema heterophylla
Hygrophila brevituba
Flora
Entry for SYNNEMA brevitubum Burkill [family ACANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, page 1, (1900) Author: (By I. H. Burkill and C. B. Clarke.)
Names
SYNNEMA brevitubumBurkill [family ACANTHACEAE]
Information
Stem pilose, quadrangular, branched. Leaves, at least the upper, narrowly lanceolate, sessile, pilose on both surfaces, entire, 2 in. long and 4 lin. broad. Flowers 6–10, crowded at each node; bracts resembling the leaves, 3–5 lin. long. Calyx-segments 5, acute, free, pilose, the posterior 4 lin. long and 3/4 lin. broad, the others shorter and narrower. Corolla-tube funnel-shaped, only 1 1/2 lin. long; the upper lip rounded, 1 lin. long; the lower much larger, 4 lin. long, 3-fid and with 6 gland-like marks in pairs near the median line. Stamens 4, their filaments inserted at the top of the tube. Style hairy. Capsule 3 lin. long; seeds many; retinacula short.
Distribution
Gold Coast Upper Guinea Upper Volta; Salaga, Krause!Togoland Upper Guinea Krakye, on the River Volta, Krause!
Notes
This remarkable species has the habit of Stachys sylvatica; I can compare the appearance of the curious flowers to nothing better than those of Orchis Morio, which in face view the corolla resembles.
