Thunbergia rufescensLindau [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Kew.,
Related name
Thunbergia rufescens
Flora
Entry for THUNBERGIA rufescens 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 rufescensLindau [family ACANTHACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 96.
Information
A shrub about 20 ft. high; the young branches clad with rust-coloured hairs. Leaves elliptic, abruptly prolonged into an acumination above, entire, when young with scattered rust-brown hairs, 6 in. long, 2 1/2 in. wide; petioles 1 in. long, more or less clad with rust-brown hairs. Flowers on peduncles of 1 1/2 in. in length; bracteoles rather firm, elliptic, rounded above, covered densely with short rust-brown hair outside, nearly glabrous within. Calyx-teeth short. Corolla-tube 2 in. long, not, as in its allies, strongly constricted towards the base, where outside is a belt of stiff hairs; lobes 3/4 in. long. Anthers acute above, with a crest of bristly hairs below and a few scattered hairs above. Stigma with 2 nearly equal lips.
Distribution
Cameroons Upper Guinea primitive forest between Barombi-ba-Mbu and Kake, Preuss, 432!
