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LANKESTERIA parviflora Lindl. [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
LANKESTERIA parviflora Lindl. [family ACANTHACEAE], in Bot. Reg. 1845, Misc. 86, & 1846, t. 12. LANKESTERIA longiflora Lindl. [family ACANTHACEAE], in Bot. Reg. 1846, sub t. 12. LANKESTERIA hispida T. Anders. [family ACANTHACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 32; Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B. 311. Justicia hispida Willd. [family ACANTHACEAE], Sp. Pl. i. 84. Eranthemum hispidum Nees [family ACANTHACEAE], in DC. Prod. xi. 456.
Information
Stem and leaves pubescent, ultimately glabrous. Leaves up to 4 1/2 by 1 1/2 in., tapering at both ends; petiole hardly any. Heads ovoid, up to 1 in. diam., dense; lateral heads distant, smaller, sometimes few-flowered; bract 3/4 by 1/16 in. Sepals 3/4–1 in. long, ciliate hairy. Corolla yellow or whitish; tube 1 1/4 in. long; lobes obovate, 1/3 in. long. Filaments exserted 1/12– 1/8 in. Capsule 1/3 in. long, 2-seeded, covered with glandular discs.
Distribution
Sierra Leone Lower Guinea Leicester, below the waterfall, Barter! in woods, near Wallia, Scott-Elliot, 4452! and without precise locality, Don! Smeathman! Afzelius!
LANKESTERIA parviflora Lindl. [family ACANTHACEAE]
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