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Trichodesma droogmansianum

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Identification
Trichodesma droogmansianum De Wild. & T.Durand [family BORAGINACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Trichodesma physaloides (Fenzl) A.DC. [family BORAGINACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Taton A., 1971
Related name
  • Trichodesma droogmansianum
  • Trichodesma physaloides
  • Trichodesma glabrescens

Flora

Entry for TRICHODESMA droogmansianum De Wild. & Durand [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 droogmansianum De Wild. & Durand [family BORAGINACEAE], in Comptes-rendus Soc. bot. Belg. xxxix. 69.
Information
An undershrub; stems glabrous. Leaves sessile, opposite, elliptic, 1 1/2–2 in. long, acute, rather rounded at the base, thick, with scattered white bulbous-based hairs on both surfaces. Cymes terminal, 4–7-flowered; pedicels about 1 in. long, subglabrous or hairy towards the top. Calyx 8 lin. long; lobes ovate-lanceolate, acute, 2 1/2 lin. wide. Sparsely tubercled and hispid. Corolla-tube 4 lin. long; lobes broadly ovate, cuspidate, as long as the tube, 4 1/2 lin. wide, spreading. Anthers long, clothed with long white hairs on the back; awn long, subulate, twisted. Ovary depressed; style filiform; stigma nearly simple.
Distribution
Congo South Central by the River Lualaba, Descamps.

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