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LINARIOPSIS prostrata Welw. [family PEDALIACEAE]
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 538, (1905) Author: (By O. Stapf.)
Names
LINARIOPSIS prostrata Welw. [family PEDALIACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. 53. —Stapf in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B, 264, fig. 97, H—K; 98, C; Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 371.
Information
Root cylindric or fusiform, as thick as a finger. Stem branched from the base; branches prostrate, up to 1/2 ft. long, pubescent; internodes 3–5 lin. long. Leaves ovate-lanceolate to oblong, subobtuse at both ends, up to 7 lin. long, 3–4 lin. broad, entire or sparingly and obscurely dentate, ciliolate, densely covered below with white glands, other wise almost glabrous; petioles very short or hardly any. Calyx 1 1/2 lin. long, hairy, persistent. Corolla purplish with dark purple streaks and spots in the throat, scarcely 1/2 in. long. Fruit 2 1/2–3 lin. long. Seeds rotundate-obtuse at the apex, truncate at the base, 1 1/2 to almost 2 lin. long.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Huilla; between Mumpulla and Humpata, 4000–5000 ft., Welwitsch, 1659! on moors by the Kubango River, below Massaca, 4000 ft., Baum, 286.
Notes
Welwitsch describes the flowers as purplish, Baum as of a dirty yellowish-brown. Welwitsch's dried specimens combine both colours.
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 538, (1905) Author: (By O. Stapf.)
Names
LINARIOPSIS prostrata Welw. [family PEDALIACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. 53. —Stapf in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B, 264, fig. 97, H—K; 98, C; Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 371.
Information
Root cylindric or fusiform, as thick as a finger. Stem branched from the base; branches prostrate, up to 1/2 ft. long, pubescent; internodes 3–5 lin. long. Leaves ovate-lanceolate to oblong, subobtuse at both ends, up to 7 lin. long, 3–4 lin. broad, entire or sparingly and obscurely dentate, ciliolate, densely covered below with white glands, other wise almost glabrous; petioles very short or hardly any. Calyx 1 1/2 lin. long, hairy, persistent. Corolla purplish with dark purple streaks and spots in the throat, scarcely 1/2 in. long. Fruit 2 1/2–3 lin. long. Seeds rotundate-obtuse at the apex, truncate at the base, 1 1/2 to almost 2 lin. long.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Huilla; between Mumpulla and Humpata, 4000–5000 ft., Welwitsch, 1659! on moors by the Kubango River, below Massaca, 4000 ft., Baum, 286.
Notes
Welwitsch describes the flowers as purplish, Baum as of a dirty yellowish-brown. Welwitsch's dried specimens combine both colours.
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 538, (1905) Author: (By O. Stapf.)
Names
LINARIOPSIS prostrata Welw. [family PEDALIACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. 53. —Stapf in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B, 264, fig. 97, H—K; 98, C; Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 371.
Information
Root cylindric or fusiform, as thick as a finger. Stem branched from the base; branches prostrate, up to 1/2 ft. long, pubescent; internodes 3–5 lin. long. Leaves ovate-lanceolate to oblong, subobtuse at both ends, up to 7 lin. long, 3–4 lin. broad, entire or sparingly and obscurely dentate, ciliolate, densely covered below with white glands, other wise almost glabrous; petioles very short or hardly any. Calyx 1 1/2 lin. long, hairy, persistent. Corolla purplish with dark purple streaks and spots in the throat, scarcely 1/2 in. long. Fruit 2 1/2–3 lin. long. Seeds rotundate-obtuse at the apex, truncate at the base, 1 1/2 to almost 2 lin. long.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Huilla; between Mumpulla and Humpata, 4000–5000 ft., Welwitsch, 1659! on moors by the Kubango River, below Massaca, 4000 ft., Baum, 286.
Notes
Welwitsch describes the flowers as purplish, Baum as of a dirty yellowish-brown. Welwitsch's dried specimens combine both colours.
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