Thunbergia fischeriEngl. [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Vollesen,K., Thunbergia sericeaBurkill [family ACANTHACEAE ]
Related name
Thunbergia unrecorded
Thunbergia fischeri
Thunbergia ciliata
Thunbergia sericea
Flora
Entry for Thunbergia sericea Burkill [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 sericeaBurkill [family ACANTHACEAE]
Information
Stems short, sericeous, more or less hidden by the leaves, which are slightly longer than the internodes. Leaves ovate or elliptic, sessile, acute above, subcordate or more or less rounded below, clothed with silky hairs on both surfaces, 9 lin. long, 4–5 lin. wide. Flowers on short peduncles, which are 2–3 lin. long; bracteoles closely resembling the leaves, more hairy outside, finely hairy within. Calyx-teeth rather long. Corolla-tube 1/2 in. long, rather narrow; lobes 4 lin. long, apparently white. Anthers obtuse above, the posterior pair with one spur below, the anterior with two slender spurs one on each lobe; the margins fringed with hairs. Stigma 2-lipped, the upper only slightly exceeding the lower, inrolled.
Distribution
British East Africa Nile Land Nandi, in dry places, Scott-Elliot, 6903! Lykipia, Gregory, 78! Ukamba; Machakos, Scott-Elliot, 6696!
Notes
This species and the preceding may possibly prove to be the same; but the anthers of T. brewerioides are described as acute above and glabrous, while those of T. sericea are obtuse and fringed with hairs. T. atriplicifolia, Drège, closely resembles it in some of its forms.
