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Whitfieldia preussii

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Name

Identification
Stylarthropus preussii Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE ] Whitfieldia preussii (Lindau) C.B.Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Clarke, C.B.,
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Flora

Entry for Whitfieldia Preussii C. B. Clarke [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 Preussii C. B. Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE]
Stylarthropus Preussii Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 12, and in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B. 306, fig. 123, A–C.
Information
Nearly glabrous, except the calyx. Upper leaves 7 by 2 1/4 in.; petiole 1/2–1 in. long. Inflorescence 7 by 3/4 in., raceme with 2 pedicels up to 1/4 in. long from a few lower axils (i.e., panicle nearly reduced to a raceme); bracts 1/8– 1/6 in. long, linear. Calyx 1/2 in. long, microscopically pubescent. Corolla yellow (Lindau); tube 3/4 in. long, inflated nearly from the base. Anther-cells hairy. Style hairy; ovary conical at the top, passing continuously into the style.
Distribution
Cameroons Upper Guinea Barombi, Preuss, 516!
Notes
Said to differ from W. lateritia, Hook., further in the colour of the flowers, but the colour is not described.

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