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Whitfieldia longifolia

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Name

Identification
Whitfieldia elongata (P.Beauv.) De Wild. & T.Durand [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by S. Koma, 2008 Whitfieldia longifolia T.Anderson [family ACANTHACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
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Flora

Entry for WHITFIELDIA longifolia T. Anders. [family ACANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, page 1, (1900) Author: (By I. H. Burkill and C. B. Clarke.)
Names
WHITFIELDIA longifolia T. Anders. [family ACANTHACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 27, partly. —Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. iv. 3B. 306;Lindau in Comptes-rendus Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvi. 83.
WHITFIELDIA longiflora S. Moore [family ACANTHACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1880, 229; Lindau in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 367 partly.
WHITFIELDIA elongata De Wild. & Durand [family ACANTHACEAE], in Comptes-rendus Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxviii. 110, and Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. fasc. 2, 48.
Information
Shrub 8 ft. high (Barter). Upper leaves up to 6–8 by 2–3 in., closely dotted on the upper face; petiole 0– 1/2 in. long. Racemes 1–3, simple, pubescent; bracts small, caducous. Calyx 3/4–1 in. long. Corolla white; linear part of the tube 1–1 1/4 in. long; lobes soft with fine white hairs, no glands. Style articulated on the ovary. Capsule 1 1/4 in. long, 4-seeded, glabrous; stalk half the length of the capsule; seeds 1/4 in. in diam. smooth, glabrous.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Welwitsch, 5086! 5152! 5153! 5193! Mechow, 156!German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Karagwe; Bukoba, Stuhlmann, 1021! Usambara; Lutindi, Holst, 3297! Gonja, Holst, 4266!British East Africa Nile Land Sesse Islands, in Lake Victoria Nyanza, Stuhlmann, 1213!Congo South Central Lake Kinda, Descamps; Lubue, Luja; Mtowa, Descamps; Lisha, Hens, C. 343.Cameroons Upper Guinea Yaunde, Zenker, 69! and without precise locality, Zenker, 759B!Fernando Po Upper Guinea Barter, 2069!

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