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ECHIUM longifolium Delile [family BORAGINACEAE]
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 IV, Part 2, page 5, (1905) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
ECHIUM longifolium Delile [family BORAGINACEAE], Fl. Égypte, 184, t. 16, fig. 3. —DC. Prodr. x. 23. Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 115.
Information
Annual, with slender root. Stems branched, with copious spreading bristles. Stem-leaves small, sessile, linear-oblong; radical-leaves oblanceolate, obtuse, narrowed into a short petiole. Spikes many, lax; bracts lanceolate, 4–6 lin. long. Calyx very bristly, 4 lin. long; segments lanceolate. Corolla bright blue, twice as long as the calyx; lobes small, orbicular. Stamens reaching to the tip of the corolla-lobes. Nuts ovoid, 2 lin. long, rugose on the outer face.
Distribution
Nubia Nile Land Soturba Mountains, Schweinfurth, 2063! in Wadi Mahas, Wady Dongola and near El Korehr, Ehrenberg ex Schweinfurth.
Distribution (external)
Egypt
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 IV, Part 2, page 5, (1905) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
ECHIUM longifolium Delile [family BORAGINACEAE], Fl. Égypte, 184, t. 16, fig. 3. —DC. Prodr. x. 23. Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 115.
Information
Annual, with slender root. Stems branched, with copious spreading bristles. Stem-leaves small, sessile, linear-oblong; radical-leaves oblanceolate, obtuse, narrowed into a short petiole. Spikes many, lax; bracts lanceolate, 4–6 lin. long. Calyx very bristly, 4 lin. long; segments lanceolate. Corolla bright blue, twice as long as the calyx; lobes small, orbicular. Stamens reaching to the tip of the corolla-lobes. Nuts ovoid, 2 lin. long, rugose on the outer face.
Distribution
Nubia Nile Land Soturba Mountains, Schweinfurth, 2063! in Wadi Mahas, Wady Dongola and near El Korehr, Ehrenberg ex Schweinfurth.
Distribution (external)
Egypt
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 IV, Part 2, page 5, (1905) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
ECHIUM longifolium Delile [family BORAGINACEAE], Fl. Égypte, 184, t. 16, fig. 3. —DC. Prodr. x. 23. Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 115.
Information
Annual, with slender root. Stems branched, with copious spreading bristles. Stem-leaves small, sessile, linear-oblong; radical-leaves oblanceolate, obtuse, narrowed into a short petiole. Spikes many, lax; bracts lanceolate, 4–6 lin. long. Calyx very bristly, 4 lin. long; segments lanceolate. Corolla bright blue, twice as long as the calyx; lobes small, orbicular. Stamens reaching to the tip of the corolla-lobes. Nuts ovoid, 2 lin. long, rugose on the outer face.
Distribution
Nubia Nile Land Soturba Mountains, Schweinfurth, 2063! in Wadi Mahas, Wady Dongola and near El Korehr, Ehrenberg ex Schweinfurth.
Distribution (external)
Egypt
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