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Thunbergia mollis

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Name

Identification
Thunbergia mollis Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE ] Verified by Vollesen,K., Thunbergia petersiana Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Thunbergia unrecorded
  • Thunbergia mollis
  • Thunbergia petersiana

Flora

Entry for Thunbergia mollis 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 mollis Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. Beibl. 41, 34, and xx. 2.
Information
Stem with a rusty pubescence or sometimes glabrous, sulcate when dry. Leaves ovate, cordate or hastate, 2 1/2 in. long, 1 1/2 in. broad, frequently with a few large teeth on the margin, more or less strigose on both surfaces; petiole pubescent with rust-brown hairs, about 1 in. long. Flowers on peduncles about as long as the petioles; bracteoles ovate, very acute, 5-nerved, the middle one forming a marked keel. Calyx short, with a sinuate margin. Corolla large, purple above; tube 1 1/2 in. long; lobes 1/2 in. long, truncated. Anthers mucronate, glabrous, those of the ventral pair of stamens each with a single hook. Stigma triangular, the lateral angles barbellate, dorsal lobe rounded, anterior side truncated with a small mucro. Capsule 1 in. long, velvety outside.
Distribution
Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Shire Highlands, at Mudi, Scott-Elliot, 8563! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 263! 1092! 1339!

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