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ACANTHOPALE decempedalis 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 decempedalis C. B. Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE]
Information
Shrub 10–12 ft. high (Mann). Leaves 7 by 2 1/2 in., tapering acute at both ends, sparsely hairy, crenate; petiole up to 3/4 in. long. Racemes axillary, 1 1/2 in. long, 2–4-flowered; bract 1/3 in. long, spathulate-oblong; bracteoles and calyx-segments 1/4 in. long, oblong, nearly glabrous. Corolla-tube 2/3 in. long, funnel-shaped nearly from the base. Filaments glabrous; anther-cells glabrous, rounded at the base. Style hairy, with one linear-oblong branch; cells of the ovary 2-ovulate.
Distribution
Fernando Po Upper Guinea 7000 ft., Mann, 2347! 3747!

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 decempedalis C. B. Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE]
Information
Shrub 10–12 ft. high (Mann). Leaves 7 by 2 1/2 in., tapering acute at both ends, sparsely hairy, crenate; petiole up to 3/4 in. long. Racemes axillary, 1 1/2 in. long, 2–4-flowered; bract 1/3 in. long, spathulate-oblong; bracteoles and calyx-segments 1/4 in. long, oblong, nearly glabrous. Corolla-tube 2/3 in. long, funnel-shaped nearly from the base. Filaments glabrous; anther-cells glabrous, rounded at the base. Style hairy, with one linear-oblong branch; cells of the ovary 2-ovulate.
Distribution
Fernando Po Upper Guinea 7000 ft., Mann, 2347! 3747!

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 decempedalis C. B. Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE]
Information
Shrub 10–12 ft. high (Mann). Leaves 7 by 2 1/2 in., tapering acute at both ends, sparsely hairy, crenate; petiole up to 3/4 in. long. Racemes axillary, 1 1/2 in. long, 2–4-flowered; bract 1/3 in. long, spathulate-oblong; bracteoles and calyx-segments 1/4 in. long, oblong, nearly glabrous. Corolla-tube 2/3 in. long, funnel-shaped nearly from the base. Filaments glabrous; anther-cells glabrous, rounded at the base. Style hairy, with one linear-oblong branch; cells of the ovary 2-ovulate.
Distribution
Fernando Po Upper Guinea 7000 ft., Mann, 2347! 3747!
ACANTHOPALE decempedalis C. B. Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE]
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