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ANEILEMA æquinoctiale Kunth [family COMMELINACEAE]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 7, page 7, (1900) Author: (By C. B. CLARKE.)
Names
ANEILEMA æquinoctiale Kunth [family COMMELINACEAE], Enum. iv. 72;—C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr. iii. 221, all var. included.
ANEILEMA adhærens Kunth [family COMMELINACEAE], Enum. iv. 72.
Commelina æquinoxialis Beauv. [family COMMELINACEAE], Fl. Owar. i. 65, t. 38.
Lamprodithyros æquinoctialis Hassk. [family ], in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Æthiop. 211.
Lamprodithyros adhærens Hassk. [family ], in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Æthiop. 211.
Amelina Wallichii C. B. Clarke [family ], Commel. Beng. t. 26.
Information
stems 1–3 ft. long; leaves lanceolate, tapering at base, or ovate-lanceolate suddenly narrowed at base quasi-petioled, hairy beneath; panicle stout, pubescent; stamens 2 fertile, filaments not bearded; capsule 2-celled (or a third dorsal small cell added), at top truncate with two horns; seeds usually 3 in each cell, stony. null
Range
Distributed throughout Tropical Africa and Arabia.
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Pondoland; St. John's River, Drège, 4466! Natal; Inanda, Wood, 540! Port Natal, Grant.! near Durban, Cooper, 3323! Molyneux! and without precise locality, Sutherland! Gerrard, 1836!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal, Houtbosch, Rehmann, 5759! Barberton, 2000–2900 ft., Galpin, 1186! Thorncroft, 265! Wood, 4507!
Notes
The type of A. adhærens, Kunth, is Drège, 4466, which has lanceolate leaves 4 by 3/4 in., attenuate at base; and scarcely differs from Beauvois' tab. cited, the type of A. æquinoctiale. In Dr. Sutherland's examples, the leaves are ovate, 4 by 1 1/2 in., suddenly narrowed at base into a quasi-petiole. The third small cell of the capsule is present sometimes in both forms. The petals are stated in DC. Monogr. Phanerog. iii. 221 to be “yellow,” or “fide A. Rich. blue”; J. M. Wood has d them “blue” in his 4507.
ANEILEMA æquinoctiale Kunth [family COMMELINACEAE]
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