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Trachyphrynium preussianum

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Identification
Hypselodelphys violacea (Ridl.) Milne-Redh. [family MARANTACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Hepper, Trachyphrynium preussianum K.Schum. [family MARANTACEAE ]
Related name
  • Trachyphrynium preussianum
  • Hypselodelphys violacea

Flora

Entry for TRACHYPHRYNIUM preussianum Schumann [family ]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 7, page 293, (1898) Author: (By J. G. BAKER.)
Names
TRACHYPHRYNIUM preussianum Schumann [family ], in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 429, fig. N, 430.
Information
Stem tall, woody, shining, stramineous, unarmed; branchlets often abruptly deflexed. Leaves oblong, cuspidate, moderately firm, glabrous, rounded at the base, 5–6 in. long, 2–2 1/2 in. broad; sheaths glabrous, 3–4 in. long; thickened free apex of petiole 1/2– 3/4 in. long. Inflorescence compound; rhachis glabrous, slightly flexuose; internodes 1/4 in. long; bracts oblong-lanceolate, 1–1 1/2 in. long. Flowers white or reddish, an inch long. Sepals ovate, acuminate, 1/2 in. long. Petals ovate, acuminate, pilose, connate in the lower half. Outer staminodia obovate, obtuse. Capsule trigonous, densely echinate, 2 in. diam.; valves acutely keeled. Seeds globose.
Distribution
Gaboon Lower Guinea Munda; Sibange Forest, Buettner, 541, 544.Cameroons Upper Guinea near Barombi, Preuss, 32, 321! 340; low forest between Barombi and Kumba, Preuss, 60; forest north-west of Makonje, Preuss, 78; between Kumba-Nenga and Mambanga, Preuss, 144!

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