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ILYSANTHES pulchella Skan. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
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 264, (1905) Author: (By W. Botting Hemsley and S. A. Skan).
Names
ILYSANTHES pulchella Skan. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Information
An erect herb 2–2 1/2 in. high, branched from the base, thinly covered on the branches and leaves with short rather stiff whitish hairs. Leaves elliptic-oblong, 2–5 lin. long, 1–2 lin. broad, sessile or the lower subsessile, obtuse, few-toothed. Flowers axillary, solitary; peduncles glabrous or nearly so, 3–9 (usually about 5) lin. long. Calyx 2 1/4 lin. long, slightly 5-angled, with narrow scarious spaces between the angles; teeth 1/2 lin. long, ovate or ovate-elliptic, obtuse, minutely ciliate. Corolla 4 1/2–5 lin. long; upper lip ovate, contracted near the apex, 2–2 1/2 lin. long, bifid; teeth ovate, acute, scarcely 1/2 lin. long; lower lip 2 1/2 lin. long, 3 lin. broad; lateral lobes obovate, 1 1/4 lin. long, 1 lin. broad; median lobe suborbicular, 1 1/2 lin. in diam. Staminodes gibbous, with a very short proboscis-like appendage. Capsule 3–3 1/2 lin. long, about 1 lin. broad, oblong, acute.
Distribution
Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. plateau of Mount Zomba, 5000–6000 ft., Whyte!
Notes
This closely resembles I. Bolusii, Hiern, from extra-tropical Transvaal, but differs in its very obtuse calyx-teeth and the form of the staminodes. A fragment collected on the Inyanga Mountains, Rhodesia, by Mr. Evelyn Cecil (209) is probably I. pulchella, but the rich purplish-blue flowers are larger than those of the type.
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 264, (1905) Author: (By W. Botting Hemsley and S. A. Skan).
Names
ILYSANTHES pulchella Skan. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Information
An erect herb 2–2 1/2 in. high, branched from the base, thinly covered on the branches and leaves with short rather stiff whitish hairs. Leaves elliptic-oblong, 2–5 lin. long, 1–2 lin. broad, sessile or the lower subsessile, obtuse, few-toothed. Flowers axillary, solitary; peduncles glabrous or nearly so, 3–9 (usually about 5) lin. long. Calyx 2 1/4 lin. long, slightly 5-angled, with narrow scarious spaces between the angles; teeth 1/2 lin. long, ovate or ovate-elliptic, obtuse, minutely ciliate. Corolla 4 1/2–5 lin. long; upper lip ovate, contracted near the apex, 2–2 1/2 lin. long, bifid; teeth ovate, acute, scarcely 1/2 lin. long; lower lip 2 1/2 lin. long, 3 lin. broad; lateral lobes obovate, 1 1/4 lin. long, 1 lin. broad; median lobe suborbicular, 1 1/2 lin. in diam. Staminodes gibbous, with a very short proboscis-like appendage. Capsule 3–3 1/2 lin. long, about 1 lin. broad, oblong, acute.
Distribution
Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. plateau of Mount Zomba, 5000–6000 ft., Whyte!
Notes
This closely resembles I. Bolusii, Hiern, from extra-tropical Transvaal, but differs in its very obtuse calyx-teeth and the form of the staminodes. A fragment collected on the Inyanga Mountains, Rhodesia, by Mr. Evelyn Cecil (209) is probably I. pulchella, but the rich purplish-blue flowers are larger than those of the type.
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 264, (1905) Author: (By W. Botting Hemsley and S. A. Skan).
Names
ILYSANTHES pulchella Skan. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Information
An erect herb 2–2 1/2 in. high, branched from the base, thinly covered on the branches and leaves with short rather stiff whitish hairs. Leaves elliptic-oblong, 2–5 lin. long, 1–2 lin. broad, sessile or the lower subsessile, obtuse, few-toothed. Flowers axillary, solitary; peduncles glabrous or nearly so, 3–9 (usually about 5) lin. long. Calyx 2 1/4 lin. long, slightly 5-angled, with narrow scarious spaces between the angles; teeth 1/2 lin. long, ovate or ovate-elliptic, obtuse, minutely ciliate. Corolla 4 1/2–5 lin. long; upper lip ovate, contracted near the apex, 2–2 1/2 lin. long, bifid; teeth ovate, acute, scarcely 1/2 lin. long; lower lip 2 1/2 lin. long, 3 lin. broad; lateral lobes obovate, 1 1/4 lin. long, 1 lin. broad; median lobe suborbicular, 1 1/2 lin. in diam. Staminodes gibbous, with a very short proboscis-like appendage. Capsule 3–3 1/2 lin. long, about 1 lin. broad, oblong, acute.
Distribution
Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. plateau of Mount Zomba, 5000–6000 ft., Whyte!
Notes
This closely resembles I. Bolusii, Hiern, from extra-tropical Transvaal, but differs in its very obtuse calyx-teeth and the form of the staminodes. A fragment collected on the Inyanga Mountains, Rhodesia, by Mr. Evelyn Cecil (209) is probably I. pulchella, but the rich purplish-blue flowers are larger than those of the type.
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