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Flora
Entry for THALIA Welwitschii Ridley [family MARANTACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 7, page 293, (1898) Author: (By J. G. BAKER.)
Names
THALIA WelwitschiiRidley [family MARANTACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1887, 132.
Information
Root-leaves ovate, glaucous, 9 in. long, 3 in. broad, with a petiole 1 ft. long, sheathing the stem in the lower part. Stem 3–5 ft. long. Panicle lax, leafless, not very compound; final branchlets slightly flexuose, 2 in. long; outer flower-bract subacute, 5/8 in. long; inner rather longer, oblong, acute. Flowers purple. Sepals ovate, obtuse. Dorsal petal ligulate, obtuse; lateral shorter, lanceolate, obtuse. Staminiferous lobe of the andrœcium cuneate; anther with a long stipes. Fruit globose.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Cazengo; rather rare in damp places between Cacula and Dalatanda, Welwitsch, 6443! Pungo Andongo; in marshes in the woods of Mutollo, Welwitsch, 6445!
