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Astripomoea tubiflora

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Identification
Astripomoea tubiflora (Hallier f.) Verdc. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, Astrochlaena tubiflora Hallier f. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] Verified by Data not digitized,
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  • Astripomoea tubiflora
  • Astrochlaena tubiflora

Flora

Entry for ASTRIPOMOEA tubiflora (Hall f.) Verdc. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1963) Author: B. VERDCOURT (East African Herbarium)
Names
ASTRIPOMOEA tubiflora (Hall f.) Verdc. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in K.B. 13 : 191 (1958). Type : Kenya, Northern Frontier Province, Irma near the R. Daua, Riva 1469 (FI, holo.!)
Astrochlaena tubiflora Hall.f. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in Ann. Ist. Bot. Roma 7 : 228 (1898)
Information
Perennial herb; stems erect, shrubby, up to 0.4 m. tall (fide Hall. f.), at first minutely stellately tomentose, later glabrous. Leaves suborbicular, about 3.5–7 cm. long, 3.5–7 cm. wide, acute, cordate at the base, widely and obtusely sinuate-dentate on the margin, stellately pubescent on both surfaces; petiole about 2–6 cm. long. Inflorescences 3–5-flowered; peduncle axillary, solitary, 3–15 mm. long : pedicels 8–15 mm. long; bracts large, oblong or ovate-lanceolate, up to 1.8 cm. long and 7 mm. wide. Outer sepals the shorter, ovate-lanceolate, 12 mm. long; inner sepals elliptic-oblong, 1.7–2 cm. long and 7 mm. wide, obtuse or emarginate. Corolla white; tube 7.5–11 cm. long, 3 mm. wide; limb dimensions not ascertainable, but stellately pubescent outside on the fasciae. Capsule globose, 12 mm. in diameter, glabrous. Seeds trigonous, tomentose.
Range
DISTR. K1 not known elsewhere but will probably occur in Ethiopia and Somali Republic (S.)
Altitude range
330 m.
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier Province Irma (41° 46′E.) near the R. Daua, 8 June 1893, Riva 1469 !
Notes
I had assumed in my earlier reference to this species that it had come from Ethiopia. Mr. J. B. Gillett has, however, demonstrated that the type locality is in fact just within the Kenya boundary. Hallier suggested that the species might be night-flowering. Certainly the limbs of flowers on the type have the withered appearance often associated with night flowering plants collected in day-time. A. longituba however, which is very similar, certainly flowers by day. More material is very much needed.

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