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RUTTYA speciosa Engl. [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
RUTTYA speciosa Engl. [family ACANTHACEAE], Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 392. —Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 283, fig. 112, C. and 340. Haplanthera speciosa Hochst. [family ACANTHACEAE], in Flora, 1843, 72; Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 308; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 152; T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 51; Solms-Laub. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 243.
Information
Shrub, 3–5 ft. high; branches glabrate. Leaves 3 1/2 by 1/2 in., narrowed at both ends, when mature nearly glabrous; cystoliths many small on both surfaces; petiole 0– 1/3 in. long. Cymes 1 in. long, often terminal on axillary branches, minutely and densely hairy; bracteoles 1/6 in. long, often about the middle of the pedicel. Calyx 1/3 in. long, minutely pubescent. Corolla 1 1/4 in. long, nearly glabrous; tube 1/3 in. long, cylindric, widened upwards; lips curved. Filaments glabrous; anthers 1/8 in. long. Capsule 2 in. long, 4-seeded, glabrous; stalk 1 in. long, stout, solid.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Samen; Debra Gönnet, Steudner, 1538! on mountain sides along the banks of the Tacazze River, Schimper, 769! and without precise locality, Schimper, 1407! Plowden!
RUTTYA speciosa Engl. [family ACANTHACEAE]
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