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ACANTHOPALE C. B. Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE]
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, page 1, (1900) Author: (By I. H. Burkill and C. B. Clarke.)
Names
ACANTHOPALE C. B. Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE]
Information
Calyx divided nearly to the base; segments 5, subequal, narrow-oblong or linear. Corolla 1–1 1/2 in. long; tube dilated nearly from the base, funnel-shaped; lobes 5, short, subequal, contorted in bud. Stamens 4, subsimilar; anther-cells 2, linear-oblong, parallel, at equal height, glabrous, base rounded; pollen globose, echinate. Ovary glabrous; ovules 2 in each cell; style hairy, one branch linear-oblong, the other minute or 0. Capsule broad-oblong, contracted, solid at the base; seeds with many hygroscopic hairs. —Shrubs. Leaves entire, more or less crenate, becoming nearly glabrous in age. Inflorescence lax or dense, mostly on short axillary branches; bract as long as the calyx, oblong or obovate, green; bracteoles shorter than the calyx, oblong.
Range
Species 7 in Tropical Africa, 1 in Madagascar, 1 (at least) in South India.
Notes
This genus comprises the African Strobilanthes of the Genera Plantarum. The species of Strobilanthes, alone retained in that genus by Lindau, have ribbed pollen. Acanthopale is Dischistocalyx, Lindau (not of Anderson nor Distichocalyx, Benth.), and also comprises Pseudostenosiphonium gardnerianum, Lindau. The genera carved out of Strobilanthes on the pollen-character are articificial; the few African species of Strobilanthes go, however, well together. Pseudostenosiphonium of Lindau differs by having only 2 stamens.
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, page 1, (1900) Author: (By I. H. Burkill and C. B. Clarke.)
Names
ACANTHOPALE C. B. Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE]
Information
Calyx divided nearly to the base; segments 5, subequal, narrow-oblong or linear. Corolla 1–1 1/2 in. long; tube dilated nearly from the base, funnel-shaped; lobes 5, short, subequal, contorted in bud. Stamens 4, subsimilar; anther-cells 2, linear-oblong, parallel, at equal height, glabrous, base rounded; pollen globose, echinate. Ovary glabrous; ovules 2 in each cell; style hairy, one branch linear-oblong, the other minute or 0. Capsule broad-oblong, contracted, solid at the base; seeds with many hygroscopic hairs. —Shrubs. Leaves entire, more or less crenate, becoming nearly glabrous in age. Inflorescence lax or dense, mostly on short axillary branches; bract as long as the calyx, oblong or obovate, green; bracteoles shorter than the calyx, oblong.
Range
Species 7 in Tropical Africa, 1 in Madagascar, 1 (at least) in South India.
Notes
This genus comprises the African Strobilanthes of the Genera Plantarum. The species of Strobilanthes, alone retained in that genus by Lindau, have ribbed pollen. Acanthopale is Dischistocalyx, Lindau (not of Anderson nor Distichocalyx, Benth.), and also comprises Pseudostenosiphonium gardnerianum, Lindau. The genera carved out of Strobilanthes on the pollen-character are articificial; the few African species of Strobilanthes go, however, well together. Pseudostenosiphonium of Lindau differs by having only 2 stamens.
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, page 1, (1900) Author: (By I. H. Burkill and C. B. Clarke.)
Names
ACANTHOPALE C. B. Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE]
Information
Calyx divided nearly to the base; segments 5, subequal, narrow-oblong or linear. Corolla 1–1 1/2 in. long; tube dilated nearly from the base, funnel-shaped; lobes 5, short, subequal, contorted in bud. Stamens 4, subsimilar; anther-cells 2, linear-oblong, parallel, at equal height, glabrous, base rounded; pollen globose, echinate. Ovary glabrous; ovules 2 in each cell; style hairy, one branch linear-oblong, the other minute or 0. Capsule broad-oblong, contracted, solid at the base; seeds with many hygroscopic hairs. —Shrubs. Leaves entire, more or less crenate, becoming nearly glabrous in age. Inflorescence lax or dense, mostly on short axillary branches; bract as long as the calyx, oblong or obovate, green; bracteoles shorter than the calyx, oblong.
Range
Species 7 in Tropical Africa, 1 in Madagascar, 1 (at least) in South India.
Notes
This genus comprises the African Strobilanthes of the Genera Plantarum. The species of Strobilanthes, alone retained in that genus by Lindau, have ribbed pollen. Acanthopale is Dischistocalyx, Lindau (not of Anderson nor Distichocalyx, Benth.), and also comprises Pseudostenosiphonium gardnerianum, Lindau. The genera carved out of Strobilanthes on the pollen-character are articificial; the few African species of Strobilanthes go, however, well together. Pseudostenosiphonium of Lindau differs by having only 2 stamens.
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