Entry for THUNBERGIA malangana Lindau [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 malanganaLindau [family ACANTHACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 95.
Information
Shrub with the younger branches pubescent. Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, glabrous except the midrib, entire or irregularly toothed, shortly acuminate above, obtuse below, reaching 5 1/2 in. in length and 2 1/4 in. broad; petioles stout. Flowers solitary on short peduncles; bracteoles nearly 1 in. long, thin, glabrous, rounded above. Calyx-teeth long, unequal, fringed with white hairs. Corolla-tube 2 in. long; lobes 1 in. long, lilac. Anthers mucronate above, rounded below and with a spiny crest prolonged upwards by a row of hairs, the anther-lobes very unequal. Stigma 2-lipped, the lower lip broad; style hairy above.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Malange, in shady and damp valleys, Buchner!
