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Asystasia schimperi

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Name

Identification
Asystasia schimperi T.Anderson [family ACANTHACEAE ]
Related name
  • Asystasia schimperi

Flora

Entry for ASYSTASIA Schimperi T. Anders. [family ACANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 1, (1912) Author: By C. B. CLARKE.
Names
ASYSTASIA Schimperi T. Anders. [family ACANTHACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 53;—C. B. Clarke in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. v. 135 including var. Grantii, C. B. Clarke.
Adhatoda rostrata Solms-Laub. [family ACANTHACEAE], in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 104; Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B, 326.
Information
erect branched annual 6–18 in. high, young parts hispid-pubescent; leaves up to 3–2 by 1 in., ovate or oblong, narrowed at both ends; petioles 0–1 in. long; spikes terminal, 1–2 in. long, rather dense; bracts up to 1/2– 2/3 by 1/5 in. narrowly elliptic; bracteoles 1/3 in. long, falcate-lanceolate; calyx-segments 1/5 in. long, linear; corolla small, pink; tube 1/3 in. long, dilated upwards; stamens 4, subsimilar; anther-cells one a little below the other, minutely mucronate at the base; pollen broadly oblong, trigonous, with 3 stopples, the smooth bands hardly reaching the pole; capsule 3/4 in. long, 4-seeded, minutely pubescent, linear-cylindric base hardly 1/5 in. long; seeds flattened, coarsely tubercled. null
Range
Frequent in East Tropical Africa.
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; Phœnix Station, 400–500 ft., Wood, 4967 partly! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 181!
Notes
These Natal examples must be at least 18 in. high, and are var. Grantii (C. B. Clarke in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. v. 135). There have been distributed two very different plants under Wood, 4967. One is the present species, as see Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xxii. 118; the other, on which Schinz founded his Calophanes crenatus is a true Calophanes (now termed Dyschoriste), for which, see above, p. 16.

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