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CUSCUTA Kilimanjari Oliver [family CONVOLVULACEAE]

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 62, (1905) Author: (By J. G. Baker and A. B. Rendle.)
Names
CUSCUTA Kilimanjari Oliver [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. 2 ser. Bot. ii. 343. —Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 351.
Information
Stems dark-coloured when dry, shorter than in C. hyalina. Flowers in umbellate clusters subtended by a broadly ovate carinate blunt bract barely 1 1/2 lin. long, shortly pedicellate. Calyx broadly campanulate, 1 lin. or a little over 1 lin. long; lobes broadly ovate, obtuse, 5-partite nearly to the base, closely imbricate. Corolla yellowish-white, broadly campanulate, 1 1/2 lin. long, without any scales but foveolate opposite the lobes, or small blunt scales sometimes present; lobes very broadly ovate, obtuse, as long as the tube. Stamens short, inserted in the sinuses; filaments flattened. Styles subulate, shorter than the ovary; stigma capitate. Capsule probably circumscissile near the base.
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Kilimanjaro, 6000 ft., Johnston, 86!

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 62, (1905) Author: (By J. G. Baker and A. B. Rendle.)
Names
CUSCUTA Kilimanjari Oliver [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. 2 ser. Bot. ii. 343. —Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 351.
Information
Stems dark-coloured when dry, shorter than in C. hyalina. Flowers in umbellate clusters subtended by a broadly ovate carinate blunt bract barely 1 1/2 lin. long, shortly pedicellate. Calyx broadly campanulate, 1 lin. or a little over 1 lin. long; lobes broadly ovate, obtuse, 5-partite nearly to the base, closely imbricate. Corolla yellowish-white, broadly campanulate, 1 1/2 lin. long, without any scales but foveolate opposite the lobes, or small blunt scales sometimes present; lobes very broadly ovate, obtuse, as long as the tube. Stamens short, inserted in the sinuses; filaments flattened. Styles subulate, shorter than the ovary; stigma capitate. Capsule probably circumscissile near the base.
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Kilimanjaro, 6000 ft., Johnston, 86!

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 62, (1905) Author: (By J. G. Baker and A. B. Rendle.)
Names
CUSCUTA Kilimanjari Oliver [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. 2 ser. Bot. ii. 343. —Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 351.
Information
Stems dark-coloured when dry, shorter than in C. hyalina. Flowers in umbellate clusters subtended by a broadly ovate carinate blunt bract barely 1 1/2 lin. long, shortly pedicellate. Calyx broadly campanulate, 1 lin. or a little over 1 lin. long; lobes broadly ovate, obtuse, 5-partite nearly to the base, closely imbricate. Corolla yellowish-white, broadly campanulate, 1 1/2 lin. long, without any scales but foveolate opposite the lobes, or small blunt scales sometimes present; lobes very broadly ovate, obtuse, as long as the tube. Stamens short, inserted in the sinuses; filaments flattened. Styles subulate, shorter than the ovary; stigma capitate. Capsule probably circumscissile near the base.
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Kilimanjaro, 6000 ft., Johnston, 86!
CUSCUTA Kilimanjari Oliver [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
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