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Trichodesma arenicola

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Identification
Isotype of Trichodesma arenicola Brummitt [family BORAGINACEAE ] (stored under name);
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Flora

Entry for TRICHODESMA arenicola Gürke [family BORAGINACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol IV, Part 2, page 5, (1905) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
TRICHODESMA arenicola Gürke [family BORAGINACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xxxii. 143. —Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 348.
Information
Rootstock thick. Stems pubescent, 8–16 in. long. Leaves sessile, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 1–2 in. long, entire, acute, clothed on both surfaces with scattered hairs, some of them bulbous-based. Flowers 6–15 in a terminal cyme; pedicels 1/2–1 in. long. Calyx divided almost to the base, very accrescent, above 1/2 in. long in flower; lobes ovate, rounded at the base. Corolla-lobes broadly ovate, shortly mucronate. Anthers densely pilose on the back; connective subulate, membranous, glabrous. Nutlets smooth in front, velvety on the back, edged with narrowly triangular pilose teeth.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea by the River Chitanda, between Goudkopje and Kakele, 3900 ft., Baum, 195! near Huilla, 5600 ft., Dekindt, 40; and without precise locality, Antunes, 120, 317.

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