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DISPERMA parviflorum C. B. Clarke [family ]
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
DISPERMA parviflorum C. B. Clarke [family ]
Hygrophila parviflora Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 7, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 366.
Information
Branches 3–4 ft. long, stout, patently hairy. Leaves 3 1/2 by 1 1/2 in., narrowed at both ends, sparsely hairy, coarsely crenate; petiole 0– 1/4 in. long. Flower-clusters axillary, very dense; bract small, shorter than the calyx. Calyx scarcely 1/5 in. long, 2 anticous segments connate 3/4 their length, 3 others connate scarcely 1/4 their length. Corolla-tube 1/5 in. long, mouth small; anthers muticous, pollen of Disperma. Ovary with 2 ovules in each cell; style nearly glabrous, branches linear, unequal. Capsule scarcely 1/5 in. long, stalked, ellipsoid, flattened, 2-seeded, shining brown.
Distribution
Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Buchanan, 556 partly!
Notes
Buchanan 556 is a mixture, and the sheets have been issued mixed! The description of Lindau of his Hygrophila parviflora (calyx 1/3 in. long) applies mainly to the present species. The other plant mixed under Buchanan 556 is a Dyschoriste, with calyx 3/4 in. long, near or perhaps D. trichocalyx .
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
DISPERMA parviflorum C. B. Clarke [family ]
Hygrophila parviflora Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 7, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 366.
Information
Branches 3–4 ft. long, stout, patently hairy. Leaves 3 1/2 by 1 1/2 in., narrowed at both ends, sparsely hairy, coarsely crenate; petiole 0– 1/4 in. long. Flower-clusters axillary, very dense; bract small, shorter than the calyx. Calyx scarcely 1/5 in. long, 2 anticous segments connate 3/4 their length, 3 others connate scarcely 1/4 their length. Corolla-tube 1/5 in. long, mouth small; anthers muticous, pollen of Disperma. Ovary with 2 ovules in each cell; style nearly glabrous, branches linear, unequal. Capsule scarcely 1/5 in. long, stalked, ellipsoid, flattened, 2-seeded, shining brown.
Distribution
Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Buchanan, 556 partly!
Notes
Buchanan 556 is a mixture, and the sheets have been issued mixed! The description of Lindau of his Hygrophila parviflora (calyx 1/3 in. long) applies mainly to the present species. The other plant mixed under Buchanan 556 is a Dyschoriste, with calyx 3/4 in. long, near or perhaps D. trichocalyx .
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
DISPERMA parviflorum C. B. Clarke [family ]
Hygrophila parviflora Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 7, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 366.
Information
Branches 3–4 ft. long, stout, patently hairy. Leaves 3 1/2 by 1 1/2 in., narrowed at both ends, sparsely hairy, coarsely crenate; petiole 0– 1/4 in. long. Flower-clusters axillary, very dense; bract small, shorter than the calyx. Calyx scarcely 1/5 in. long, 2 anticous segments connate 3/4 their length, 3 others connate scarcely 1/4 their length. Corolla-tube 1/5 in. long, mouth small; anthers muticous, pollen of Disperma. Ovary with 2 ovules in each cell; style nearly glabrous, branches linear, unequal. Capsule scarcely 1/5 in. long, stalked, ellipsoid, flattened, 2-seeded, shining brown.
Distribution
Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Buchanan, 556 partly!
Notes
Buchanan 556 is a mixture, and the sheets have been issued mixed! The description of Lindau of his Hygrophila parviflora (calyx 1/3 in. long) applies mainly to the present species. The other plant mixed under Buchanan 556 is a Dyschoriste, with calyx 3/4 in. long, near or perhaps D. trichocalyx .
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