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Verbascum ternacha

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Name

Identification
Verbascum ternacha Hochst. ex A.Rich. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for VERBASCUM Ternacha Hochst. ex A. Rich. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
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 264, (1905) Author: (By W. Botting Hemsley and S. A. Skan).
Names
VERBASCUM Ternacha Hochst. ex A. Rich. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 108. —Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 101; Vatke in Oest. Bot. Zeitschr. 1875, 9, and in Linnæa, xliii. 305; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 375; Almagià in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, viii. 135.
VERBASCUM somaliense Baker [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 222.
Information
A biennial 2–3 ft. high or more, densely clothed with pale yellow or whitish woolly tomentum; stem usually simple, erect, thick. Radical and lower cauline leaves up to 9 in. long, petiolate, oval or oblong, subacute or obtuse, crenate or serrate, narrowed at the base; petiole 1–2 in. long, stout; upper leaves much smaller, usually subamplexicaul, acute or acuminate, more or less crenate or serrate. Panicle 18 in. long or more, branched in the lower part; branches 6–12 in. long, spreading; bracts 1/4– 1/3 in. long, ovate, acuminate. Flowers usually in small rather distant groups; pedicels about 2 lin. long. Calyx 2 1/2–3 lin. long, deeply cleft; segments lanceolate or narrow-ovate, acute or acuminate. Corolla 3/4 in. in diam., yellow, tomentose outside. Filaments all bearded; anthers reniform. Capsule 3 1/2 lin. long, ovoid, tomentose or here and there glabrescent.
Distribution
Nubia Nile Land near New Dongola, Ehrenberg. Darfur, Purdy, 117!Eritrea Nile Land various localities, Schweinfurth & Riva, 1314! 873! 732! Hildebrandt, 446; Rohlfs & Stecker.Abyssinia Nile Land mountains near Jelajeranne, Schimper, 621! Jaja, Schimper, 307. Harre-Schoa, Schimper, 676; and without precise locality, Schimper, 845!Somaliland Nile Land Serrut Mountains, near Maid, Hildebrandt, 1408! Golis Range, Miss Edith Cole! Mrs. Lort Phillips!
Notes
V. erianthum, Benth. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 108 (Wajerat, Petit), is probably not distinct from the above species. I have seen no African specimens, and can find nothing in Richard's description by which to satisfactorily distinguish it.

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