Entry for TRICHODESMA Schimperi Baker. [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 SchimperiBaker. [family BORAGINACEAE]
Information
Shrubby, much branched; branchlets shortly and densely hispid. Leaves opposite, shortly hispid, the upper ovate, sessile, about 1 in. long, the lower oblong, rather larger, narrowed to a short petiole. Cymes many-flowered; pedicels slender, very hairy, the lower 6 lin. long. Calyx densely hairy on both surfaces, 3 lin. long at the flowering time; segments ovate, cuspidate, cordate at the base. Corolla-tube 3 lin. long; expanded limb nearly 1 in. in diam.; lobes triangular, cuspidate, 5 lin. long, 2 lin. broad at the base. Anthers 2 lin. long, lanceolate, pilose on the back; awns nearly as long as the anthers, flat, contorted. Nuts ovoid, 3 lin. long, with a serrated inflexed margin and rugose back.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Begemeder; Ebenat, Schimper, 1472! and without precise locality, Roth!
