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Tricliceras schinzii

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Name

Identification
Tricliceras schinzii (Urb.) R.Fern. [family TURNERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
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Entry for Tricliceras schinzii Urb. R. Fernandes [family TURNERACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 4, Part 0, page 348, (1978) Author: R. Fernandes
Names
Tricliceras schinzii Urb. R. Fernandes [family TURNERACEAE], in Bol. Soc. Brot., Sér. 2, 49: 23, t. 7 (1975). Type from Angola.
Wormskioldia schinzii Urb. [family TURNERACEAE], in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. 15: 159 (1893).—A. & R. Fernandes in Bol. Soc. Brot., Sér. 2, 35: 160 (1961); in Mem. Junta Invest. Ultramar, Sér. 2, 28: 15 (1961); in C.F.A. 4: 211 (1970). Type as above.
Information
A perennial herb, 11·5–47 cm. high (incl. the racemes). Stems 1–several from a long, woody, noduled rootstock, 4–25 cm. long, dark brownish when dry, erect, simple or sometimes branched from the base, more or less setose like the leaves, peduncles, pedicels, calyx and capsule, the setae spreading, not bulbous at the base, minutely capitate-glandular. Leaves more or less dense, usually attenuate to the acute apex subcontracted or attenuate into a subpetiolar base 1–5 mm. long, setose especially on the inferior surface; midrib and nerves raised on both surfaces. Peduncles up to 26 cm. long, usually exceeding the upper leaves, 2–7-flowered; pedicels 5–10 mm. long, deflexed in fruit. Calyx (9)11–15 mm. long. Petals obovate, cuneate, salmon to orange-red. Anthers 2–2·5 mm. long. Ovary densely setose. Capsule setose, pendulous.

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