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Acanthonema strigosum

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Identification
Acanthonema strigosum Hook.f. [family GESNERIACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for ACANTHONEMA strigosum Hook. f. [family GESNERIACEAE]
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 503, (1905) Author: (By J. G. Baker and C. B. Clarke.)
Names
ACANTHONEMA strigosum Hook. f. [family GESNERIACEAE], Bot. Mag. t. 5339.C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phan. v. 157; Fritsch in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 156.
Carolofritschia diandra Engl. [family GESNERIACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 362.
Information
Leaf (cotyledon) ovate or oblong, sessile, cordate, thinly hairy on both surfaces, growing out to 9 in. long; margin subentire; nerves 20 pairs. Pedicels 1/3 in. long, with many-celled hairs; bracts at their base minute. Calyx-lobes 1/10 in. long, oblong, with many-celled hairs. Corolla-tube 3/5 in. long; limb violet-purple. Anthers confluent in pairs; tooth at the top of the anticous stamens very small; posticous stamens very frequently reduced to rudimentary filaments. Capsule 1/6– 1/5 in. long. Seeds and pollen as of Streptocarpus.
Distribution
Fernando Po Upper Guinea 200–2000 ft., Mann, 569!Cameroons Upper Guinea Cameroon Mountain, 5000 ft., Mann, 1948! Efulen, Bates, 391! near Lolodorf, 2400 ft., Zenker, 1381! Staudt, 118!

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