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Triumfetta longiseta

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Name

Identification
Triumfetta longiseta DC. [family TILIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, null Verified by Data not digitized,
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Flora

Entry for TRIUMFETTA semitriloba Linn. [family TILIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 240, (1868) Author: (by Dr. Maxwell T. Masters).
Names
TRIUMFETTA semitriloba Linn. [family TILIACEAE], DC. Prod. i. 507.
TRIUMFETTA angulata Lam. [family TILIACEAE], Dict. iii. 421.
TRIUMFETTA cordifolia Guill. et Perr. [family TILIACEAE], Fl. Seneg. i. 92. t. 18.
TRIUMFETTA longiseta Guill. et Perr. [family TILIACEAE], l. c. i. 92.
Information
Suffrutescent or shrubby, pubescent with stellate down or villose, upper surface of the leaves sometimes nearly glabrous. Branches erect or spreading, covered with a very tough bark. Lower leaves on long spreading stalks 1–4 in. long, roundish, subcordate, 3–5-lobed, lobes acute, central one longest, irregularly toothed; 4–6 in. long, 3–4 in. wide; upper leaves smaller, oblong-lanceolate or cordate-ovate, acute. Flowers numerous, in close cymose clusters arranged in long leafy racemes along the sides and ends of the branches. Flower-buds oblong, apiculate. Sepals 5, oblong, apiculate. Petals oblong, bright yellow. Stamens 10–15. Fruit globose, the size of a large pea, 4–6-valved; valves studded with hooked, pilose prickles.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Dr. Welwitsch!Fernando Po Upper Guinea Barter!Gambia Upper Guinea Boteler!Lagos Upper Guinea Barter!Abbeokuta Upper Guinea Irving!Sierra Leone Upper Guinea Heudelot!
Notes
A widely distributed tropical weed, some of whose varieties approach those of T. rhomboidea, but have larger fruit. Guillemin and Perrottet's T. longiseta only differs in the length of the prickles, the 6-valved fruit being, as far as I have seen, an exceptional occurrence.

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