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Thunbergia fischeri

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Identification
Thunbergia fischeri Engl. [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Vollesen,K., Thunbergia sericea Burkill [family ACANTHACEAE ]
Related name
  • Thunbergia unrecorded
  • Thunbergia fischeri
  • Thunbergia sericea

Flora

Entry for Thunbergia Fischeri Engl. [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
Thunbergia Fischeri Engl. [family ACANTHACEAE], Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 387.
Information
Stem erect, densely woolly. Leaves sessile, oblong, somewhat acute, densely woolly, firm, 2 in. long, 3/4 in. broad. Flowers presumably stalked; bracteoles lanceolate, 7–8 lin. long, 5 lin. broad. Calyx-teeth lanceolate-subulate, somewhat glandular-pilose. Corolla-tube 1 in. long. Anthers with a spur on each lobe and long hairs on the margins. Stigma 2-lipped. Capsule 3/4 in. long, densely pilose.
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. on the east shore of the Victoria Nyanza, near Igitschu-Kamiana, Fischer, 492.
Notes
Described as closely resembling T. angolensis, but of the section Euthunbergia. The description is not sufficient to enable its exact position in the genus to be fixed with certainty.

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