Entry for TELANTHERA maritima Moquin var. Sparmanni [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 402, (1912) Author: By T. COOKE and C. H. WRIGHT.
Names
TELANTHERA maritimaMoquin var. Sparmanni [family AMARANTHACEAE], in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 365
TELANTHERA maritimaHarv. [family AMARANTHACEAE], Gen. S. Afr. Pl. ed. 2, 319.
Information
a somewhat pilose decumbent plant; stems much-branched, rooting, slightly swollen at the nodes; leaves rather distant, suborbicular or orbicular, very obtuse, entire; heads axillary, 4–5 lin. long, consisting of 4–5 flower-clusters; bracts orbicular-ovate, mucronate, strongly keeled; bracteoles slightly longer than the bracts, ovate, acuminate; perianth-segments 2 lin. long, the outer ovate-lanceolate, the inner rather narrower; staminodes a little longer than the filaments, 3–4-laciniate at the apex, entire at the margins; anthers oblong; utricle shorter than the perianth, obovoid, glabrous; seed lenticular, obtuse at the margin, shining blackish. null
Range
Also in Senegambia, the type on the shores of Tropical Africa and South America.
