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Thunbergia petersiana

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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 claessensii
  • Thunbergia mufindiensis
  • Thunbergia torrei
  • Thunbergia bogoroensis
  • Thunbergia usambarica
  • Thunbergia humbertii
  • Thunbergia masisiensis
  • Thunbergia mollis
  • Thunbergia petersiana
  • Thunbergia katangensis
  • Thunbergia swynnertonii

Flora

Entry for Thunbergia petersiana 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 petersiana Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 89.
Thunbergia chrysops Klotzsch [family ACANTHACEAE], (not of Hook.) in Peters' Mossamb. 196.
Information
Stem thin, with scattered hairs, climbing. Leaves on petioles upwards of 2 in. long, cordate or rarely subcordate, long acuminate, with a few large teeth on the margin, 3 in. long, 2 1/4 in. broad, pilose on both sides. Flowers on peduncles about 1 in. long; bracts ovate-lanceolate, acute, hairy, 3-nerved and 3-keeled, reticulated. Calyx very short, truncate or slightly toothed. Corolla large; tube wide, 1 in. long; lips 5 lin. long, violet. Anthers spurred at the apex and also at the base of each lobe with long spurs, not bearded. Stigma funnel-shaped, triangular barbellate.
Distribution
Portuguese East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Lower Zambesi; Boror, Peters.

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