DYSCHORISTE verticillaris 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
DYSCHORISTE verticillaris C. B. Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE]
Calophanes verticillaris T. Anders. ex Oliv. [family ACANTHACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 126.
Nomaphila glandulosa Klotzsch [family ACANTHACEAE], in Peters, Reise Mossamb. 198.
Hygrophila glandulosa Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE], in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 367.
Information
Branches glabrous except at the tips. Lower and middle leaves glabrous, cystoliths numerous and conspicuous above, below still larger. Calyx very hairy (almost woolly) without, and with numerous glandular hairs; otherwise as D. trichocalyx .
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Higher Plateau, north of Lake Nyasa, Thomson!Portuguese East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Beira, Braga, 147! Rios de Sena, Peters!Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Tanganyika Plateau at Fort Hill, 3500–4000 ft., Whyte! Nyika Mountains, 4000–6000 ft., Whyte! between Songwe and Karonga, 1700–2000 ft., Whyte 32! between Kondowe and Karonga, 2000–6000 ft., Whyte, 379! Masuku Plateau, 6500–7000 ft., Whyte! Manganja Hills, Meller! Blantyre, Buchanan, 74! Zomba and vicinity, 2500–3500 ft. Whyte! Mount Chiradzulu, 4000 ft., Whyte! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 16!
Notes
This species is hardly separable from D. trichocalyx; the subulate tips to the calyx-teeth are shorter.
DYSCHORISTE verticillaris C. B. Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE]
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