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Trichodesma calathiforme

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Name

Identification
Trichodesma schimperi R.R.Mill [family BORAGINACEAE ] (stored under name); Trichodesma calathiforme Hochst. [family BORAGINACEAE ]
Related name
  • Trichodesma trichodesmoides
  • Omphalodes unrecorded
  • Friedrichsthalia trichodesmoides
  • Trichodesma schimperi
  • Trichodesmatis unrecorded
  • Streblanthera unrecorded
  • Trichodesma calathiforme
  • Trichodesma pauciflorum
  • Trichodesma grandifolium
  • Streblanthera trichodesmoides
  • Friedrichsthalia schimperiana

Flora

Entry for TRICHODESMA calathiforme Hochst. [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 calathiforme Hochst. [family BORAGINACEAE], in Flora, 1844, 29. —DC. Prodr. x. 173; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 352.
Friedrichsthalia trichodesmoides Bunge [family BORAGINACEAE], Delect. Sem. Hort. Dorpat. 1843, 7; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 115.
Streblanthera trichodesmoides Steud. ex Hochst. [family ], in Flora, 1844, 29; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 92.
Information
Stems herbaceous, densely clothed with short bristly hairs. Leaves opposite, densely bristly on both sides, the upper ovate, sessile, the lower large, oblong, narrowed to the base. Cymes lax; pedicels long, slender, densely bristly. Calyx densely clothed with adpressed bristly hairs 6 lin. long in the flowering stage; segments at first oblong-lanceolate, finally broad ovate, cuspidate. Corolla-limb 1 in. in diam.; segments with a large cusp from a broad ovate base. Anthers 3 lin. long; connective longer than the anthers, convolute, hairy below. Nuts ovoid, 2–3 lin. long, with a thick inflexed entire wing, and nearly smooth back.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Adowa, Petit, 414! near Selassaquilla, and near Jelajeranne, Schimper, and without precise locality, Schimper, 710!Somaliland Nile Land Miss Edith Cole! Révoil (ex Franchet).

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