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ECHIDNOPSIS cereiformis Hook. f. [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
ECHIDNOPSIS cereiformis Hook. f. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Bot. Mag. t. 5930. —Penzig in Atti Congr. Bot. Internaz. 1892, 349; Berger in Malpighia, 1902, 160, t. 3, figs. 3 and 6–10.
ECHIDNOPSIS tessellata K. Schum. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 274, and in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 42. —Monatssch. für Kakt. xiii. 109.
Apteranthes tessellata Decne. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Ann. Sc. Nat. 5 sér. xiii. 406.
Stapelia cylindrica Hort. ex Hook. f. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Bot. Mag. t. 5930.
Piaranthus fascicularis Hort. ex K. Schum. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Monatsschr. für Kakteenkunde, 1893, iii. 101.
Information
Stems fleshy, leafless, 1/2– 5/8 in. thick, cylindric, obtusely 8-angled; angles tessellately divided into obtuse tubercles, glabrous. Flowers fascicled near the tips of the stems, subsessile, bright yellow. Sepals 1/2– 3/4 lin. long, broadly ovate, acute, glabrous. Corolla 3 1/2–4 lin. in diam., rotate-campanulate, 5-lobed to half-way down; lobes 1 1/2 lin. long, broadly ovate, acute, glabrous. Outer corona none; inner corona of 5 smooth fleshy deltoid-ovate acute lobes, horizontally inflexed and incumbent on the backs of the anthers, yellow.
Distribution
Eritrea Nile Land near Geleb, Penzig (ex Penzig).Abyssinia Nile Land among rocks in the district of Maschila and in the vicinity of Dschedscha, Schimper (ex Decaisne).Somaliland Nile Land in dry chalky soil near Passo di Cavernan (Carbedan), Riva, 943 (ex Schumann). Also cultivated specimens!
Notes
Described from living cultivated plants.
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
ECHIDNOPSIS cereiformis Hook. f. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Bot. Mag. t. 5930. —Penzig in Atti Congr. Bot. Internaz. 1892, 349; Berger in Malpighia, 1902, 160, t. 3, figs. 3 and 6–10.
ECHIDNOPSIS tessellata K. Schum. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 274, and in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 42. —Monatssch. für Kakt. xiii. 109.
Apteranthes tessellata Decne. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Ann. Sc. Nat. 5 sér. xiii. 406.
Stapelia cylindrica Hort. ex Hook. f. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Bot. Mag. t. 5930.
Piaranthus fascicularis Hort. ex K. Schum. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Monatsschr. für Kakteenkunde, 1893, iii. 101.
Information
Stems fleshy, leafless, 1/2– 5/8 in. thick, cylindric, obtusely 8-angled; angles tessellately divided into obtuse tubercles, glabrous. Flowers fascicled near the tips of the stems, subsessile, bright yellow. Sepals 1/2– 3/4 lin. long, broadly ovate, acute, glabrous. Corolla 3 1/2–4 lin. in diam., rotate-campanulate, 5-lobed to half-way down; lobes 1 1/2 lin. long, broadly ovate, acute, glabrous. Outer corona none; inner corona of 5 smooth fleshy deltoid-ovate acute lobes, horizontally inflexed and incumbent on the backs of the anthers, yellow.
Distribution
Eritrea Nile Land near Geleb, Penzig (ex Penzig).Abyssinia Nile Land among rocks in the district of Maschila and in the vicinity of Dschedscha, Schimper (ex Decaisne).Somaliland Nile Land in dry chalky soil near Passo di Cavernan (Carbedan), Riva, 943 (ex Schumann). Also cultivated specimens!
Notes
Described from living cultivated plants.
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
ECHIDNOPSIS cereiformis Hook. f. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Bot. Mag. t. 5930. —Penzig in Atti Congr. Bot. Internaz. 1892, 349; Berger in Malpighia, 1902, 160, t. 3, figs. 3 and 6–10.
ECHIDNOPSIS tessellata K. Schum. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 274, and in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 42. —Monatssch. für Kakt. xiii. 109.
Apteranthes tessellata Decne. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Ann. Sc. Nat. 5 sér. xiii. 406.
Stapelia cylindrica Hort. ex Hook. f. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Bot. Mag. t. 5930.
Piaranthus fascicularis Hort. ex K. Schum. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Monatsschr. für Kakteenkunde, 1893, iii. 101.
Information
Stems fleshy, leafless, 1/2– 5/8 in. thick, cylindric, obtusely 8-angled; angles tessellately divided into obtuse tubercles, glabrous. Flowers fascicled near the tips of the stems, subsessile, bright yellow. Sepals 1/2– 3/4 lin. long, broadly ovate, acute, glabrous. Corolla 3 1/2–4 lin. in diam., rotate-campanulate, 5-lobed to half-way down; lobes 1 1/2 lin. long, broadly ovate, acute, glabrous. Outer corona none; inner corona of 5 smooth fleshy deltoid-ovate acute lobes, horizontally inflexed and incumbent on the backs of the anthers, yellow.
Distribution
Eritrea Nile Land near Geleb, Penzig (ex Penzig).Abyssinia Nile Land among rocks in the district of Maschila and in the vicinity of Dschedscha, Schimper (ex Decaisne).Somaliland Nile Land in dry chalky soil near Passo di Cavernan (Carbedan), Riva, 943 (ex Schumann). Also cultivated specimens!
Notes
Described from living cultivated plants.
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