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BAUMIA angolensis Engl. & Gilg [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
BAUMIA angolensis Engl. & Gilg [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], l.c. 366.
Information
An erect slender hispid annual herb, 9–12 in. high. Stem simple or slightly branched above the middle. Leaves opposite, 1–2 in. long, deeply pinnatifid; lobes 3–7, linear, costate. Flowers subsessile, solitary in the axils of the upper leaves, and in short, terminal spikes, about 1/2 in. long. Bracteoles 2, lanceolate, costate, equalling the calyx, somewhat obtuse. Calyx coarsely hairy outside, glabrous within; lobes about a quarter the length of the tube. Corolla-limb about 1/3 in. across.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea by the River Onschingue, not far from the River Kuito, 4000 ft., Baum, 785!
BAUMIA angolensis Engl. & Gilg [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
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