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BRACHYSTELMA plocamoides Oliver [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 4, Part 1, page 231, (1904) Author: (By N. E. Brown.)
Names
BRACHYSTELMA plocamoides Oliver [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 112, t. 77, fig. 1. —K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 327, and in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 264, fig. 77, H, and 268.
BRACHYSTELMA sp Thomson [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Speke, Nile, Append. 640.
Information
Tuber large and fleshy, like a turnip, tasting something like liquorice (Grant). Stem repeatedly trichotomously or dichotomously branched from the base, 8–9 in. high, glabrous. Leaves 2–3 1/2 in. long, 1/3– 1/2 lin. broad, linear, shortly and abruptly uncinate-mucronulate at the apex, glabrous. Flowers solitary, sublateral between the bases of the leaves; pedicels 6–7 lin. long, glabrous, occasionally bearing a linear bract at about their middle. Sepals 1 1/2–2 lin. long, glabrous. Corolla stellate-rotate, 5-lobed nearly to the base; lobes 9–10 lin. long, 1–1 1/2 lin. broad at their base, lanceolate-linear, acute, glabrous, dark purple (Grant). Outer corona 10-toothed; teeth in 5 contiguous pairs, 3/4–1 lin. long, deltoid-acuminate, ascending, glabrous; inner coronal-lobes scarcely 1/4 lin. long, oblong, obtuse, incumbent on the backs of the anthers and shorter than them, dorsally adnate to the outer corona, glabrous.
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Uyansi; in dry forest at Jiwa la Mkoa, in the Mgunda Mkali, 3700 ft., Speke & Grant!
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 4, Part 1, page 231, (1904) Author: (By N. E. Brown.)
Names
BRACHYSTELMA plocamoides Oliver [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 112, t. 77, fig. 1. —K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 327, and in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 264, fig. 77, H, and 268.
BRACHYSTELMA sp Thomson [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Speke, Nile, Append. 640.
Information
Tuber large and fleshy, like a turnip, tasting something like liquorice (Grant). Stem repeatedly trichotomously or dichotomously branched from the base, 8–9 in. high, glabrous. Leaves 2–3 1/2 in. long, 1/3– 1/2 lin. broad, linear, shortly and abruptly uncinate-mucronulate at the apex, glabrous. Flowers solitary, sublateral between the bases of the leaves; pedicels 6–7 lin. long, glabrous, occasionally bearing a linear bract at about their middle. Sepals 1 1/2–2 lin. long, glabrous. Corolla stellate-rotate, 5-lobed nearly to the base; lobes 9–10 lin. long, 1–1 1/2 lin. broad at their base, lanceolate-linear, acute, glabrous, dark purple (Grant). Outer corona 10-toothed; teeth in 5 contiguous pairs, 3/4–1 lin. long, deltoid-acuminate, ascending, glabrous; inner coronal-lobes scarcely 1/4 lin. long, oblong, obtuse, incumbent on the backs of the anthers and shorter than them, dorsally adnate to the outer corona, glabrous.
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Uyansi; in dry forest at Jiwa la Mkoa, in the Mgunda Mkali, 3700 ft., Speke & Grant!
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 4, Part 1, page 231, (1904) Author: (By N. E. Brown.)
Names
BRACHYSTELMA plocamoides Oliver [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 112, t. 77, fig. 1. —K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 327, and in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 264, fig. 77, H, and 268.
BRACHYSTELMA sp Thomson [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Speke, Nile, Append. 640.
Information
Tuber large and fleshy, like a turnip, tasting something like liquorice (Grant). Stem repeatedly trichotomously or dichotomously branched from the base, 8–9 in. high, glabrous. Leaves 2–3 1/2 in. long, 1/3– 1/2 lin. broad, linear, shortly and abruptly uncinate-mucronulate at the apex, glabrous. Flowers solitary, sublateral between the bases of the leaves; pedicels 6–7 lin. long, glabrous, occasionally bearing a linear bract at about their middle. Sepals 1 1/2–2 lin. long, glabrous. Corolla stellate-rotate, 5-lobed nearly to the base; lobes 9–10 lin. long, 1–1 1/2 lin. broad at their base, lanceolate-linear, acute, glabrous, dark purple (Grant). Outer corona 10-toothed; teeth in 5 contiguous pairs, 3/4–1 lin. long, deltoid-acuminate, ascending, glabrous; inner coronal-lobes scarcely 1/4 lin. long, oblong, obtuse, incumbent on the backs of the anthers and shorter than them, dorsally adnate to the outer corona, glabrous.
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Uyansi; in dry forest at Jiwa la Mkoa, in the Mgunda Mkali, 3700 ft., Speke & Grant!
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