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PANDIAKA Welwitschii Hiern. [family AMARANTHACEAE]

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, Vol 6, Part 1, page 14, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
PANDIAKA Welwitschii Hiern. [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 894. Achyranthes Welwitschii Schinz [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 187, in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 174.
Information
A hairy erect herb, 1–2 ft. high. Leaves opposite, subsessile, 1 1/4 in. long, obovate, rounded at the top. Spikes 1 1/2 by 3/5 in., straw-coloured; bracteoles about 2/3 the length of the perianth, ovate, acuminate, subspinescent. Perianth 1/4 in. long; segments elliptic-oblong, suddenly shortly acuminate, subspinescent, with many long white hairs on the back. Staminodes quadrate, slightly toothed at the top. Ovary obtusely obovate at the top.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Huilla; at Lopollo, Welwitsch, 6488! 6491!
Notes
Welwitsch 6487 (not cited by Hiern) is a proliferous form of the same species, each flower being represented by a spike of bracts an inch long. A similar monstrosity occurs in Achyranthes aspera .

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, Vol 6, Part 1, page 14, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
PANDIAKA Welwitschii Hiern. [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 894. Achyranthes Welwitschii Schinz [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 187, in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 174.
Information
A hairy erect herb, 1–2 ft. high. Leaves opposite, subsessile, 1 1/4 in. long, obovate, rounded at the top. Spikes 1 1/2 by 3/5 in., straw-coloured; bracteoles about 2/3 the length of the perianth, ovate, acuminate, subspinescent. Perianth 1/4 in. long; segments elliptic-oblong, suddenly shortly acuminate, subspinescent, with many long white hairs on the back. Staminodes quadrate, slightly toothed at the top. Ovary obtusely obovate at the top.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Huilla; at Lopollo, Welwitsch, 6488! 6491!
Notes
Welwitsch 6487 (not cited by Hiern) is a proliferous form of the same species, each flower being represented by a spike of bracts an inch long. A similar monstrosity occurs in Achyranthes aspera .

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, Vol 6, Part 1, page 14, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
PANDIAKA Welwitschii Hiern. [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 894. Achyranthes Welwitschii Schinz [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 187, in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 174.
Information
A hairy erect herb, 1–2 ft. high. Leaves opposite, subsessile, 1 1/4 in. long, obovate, rounded at the top. Spikes 1 1/2 by 3/5 in., straw-coloured; bracteoles about 2/3 the length of the perianth, ovate, acuminate, subspinescent. Perianth 1/4 in. long; segments elliptic-oblong, suddenly shortly acuminate, subspinescent, with many long white hairs on the back. Staminodes quadrate, slightly toothed at the top. Ovary obtusely obovate at the top.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Huilla; at Lopollo, Welwitsch, 6488! 6491!
Notes
Welwitsch 6487 (not cited by Hiern) is a proliferous form of the same species, each flower being represented by a spike of bracts an inch long. A similar monstrosity occurs in Achyranthes aspera .
PANDIAKA Welwitschii Hiern. [family AMARANTHACEAE]
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