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OXYGONUM delagoense O. Kuntze [family POLYGONACEAE]
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 98, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
OXYGONUM delagoense O. Kuntze [family POLYGONACEAE], Rev. Gen. Pl. iii. 268.
Information
Herbaceous. Stem erect or ascending, up to 3 ft. high; branches slender, more or less distinctly triquetrous, papillose. Leaves from linear to lanceolate, 1–2 in. long, 1–3 lin. wide, acuminate, sometimes trifid, pubescent; ochreæ 3 lin. long, tubular, pubescent, setæ about 10, pallid, shorter than the tubular part. Racemes terminal, lax, slender, up to 6 in. long; bracts oblique, subulate, not setose, pubescent; pedicels 2–4 in the axil of each bract, shortly exserted. Perianth nearly 3 lin. long, cylindrical and densely pubescent below, campanulate and less densely so above; lobes twice as long as the tube, oblong, acute. Stamens half as long as the perianth; anther-cells diverging at the base. Fruit triquetrous, acuminate, not winged nor spiny.
Distribution
Rhodesia Mozamb. Dist. Leshumo Valley, Holub, 720! 732! 795! 796!
Distribution (external)
South Africa
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 98, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
OXYGONUM delagoense O. Kuntze [family POLYGONACEAE], Rev. Gen. Pl. iii. 268.
Information
Herbaceous. Stem erect or ascending, up to 3 ft. high; branches slender, more or less distinctly triquetrous, papillose. Leaves from linear to lanceolate, 1–2 in. long, 1–3 lin. wide, acuminate, sometimes trifid, pubescent; ochreæ 3 lin. long, tubular, pubescent, setæ about 10, pallid, shorter than the tubular part. Racemes terminal, lax, slender, up to 6 in. long; bracts oblique, subulate, not setose, pubescent; pedicels 2–4 in the axil of each bract, shortly exserted. Perianth nearly 3 lin. long, cylindrical and densely pubescent below, campanulate and less densely so above; lobes twice as long as the tube, oblong, acute. Stamens half as long as the perianth; anther-cells diverging at the base. Fruit triquetrous, acuminate, not winged nor spiny.
Distribution
Rhodesia Mozamb. Dist. Leshumo Valley, Holub, 720! 732! 795! 796!
Distribution (external)
South Africa
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 98, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
OXYGONUM delagoense O. Kuntze [family POLYGONACEAE], Rev. Gen. Pl. iii. 268.
Information
Herbaceous. Stem erect or ascending, up to 3 ft. high; branches slender, more or less distinctly triquetrous, papillose. Leaves from linear to lanceolate, 1–2 in. long, 1–3 lin. wide, acuminate, sometimes trifid, pubescent; ochreæ 3 lin. long, tubular, pubescent, setæ about 10, pallid, shorter than the tubular part. Racemes terminal, lax, slender, up to 6 in. long; bracts oblique, subulate, not setose, pubescent; pedicels 2–4 in the axil of each bract, shortly exserted. Perianth nearly 3 lin. long, cylindrical and densely pubescent below, campanulate and less densely so above; lobes twice as long as the tube, oblong, acute. Stamens half as long as the perianth; anther-cells diverging at the base. Fruit triquetrous, acuminate, not winged nor spiny.
Distribution
Rhodesia Mozamb. Dist. Leshumo Valley, Holub, 720! 732! 795! 796!
Distribution (external)
South Africa
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