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ANEILEMA Welwitschii C. B. Clarke [family COMMELINACEAE]
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 8, page 25, (1902) Author: (By C. B. Clarke.)
Names
ANEILEMA Welwitschii C. B. Clarke [family COMMELINACEAE], in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 229. —Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 432; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 79.
Information
Minutely grey pubescent. Stems cæspitose on a bundle of thick roots clavate and subtuberous at their extremities. Fertile stems 10–16 in. long, rather robust, little divided, with many fully developed leaves. Leaves 3 by 2/3–1 in., oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, sessile, tip obtuse. Peduncle 2–4 in. long, terminal, with often a sheath or nearly obsolete leaf in the middle. Panicle in fruit 1 by 3/4 in., even in fruit very dense; flowers blue (Welwitsch). Capsule 1/5 by 1/6 in., quadrate-oblong, shining, thinly crustaceous, 4-seeded.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Huilla; edges of woods, Lake Ivantala, 3800–5500 ft., Welwitsch, 6596! Golungo Alto; marshy places between Catumba and Ohai, Welwitsch, 6597!
Notes
The leaves in 6596 are considerably broader than in 6597; but no one has doubted their being one species. I think this may be only a state of A. Schweinfurthii .
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 8, page 25, (1902) Author: (By C. B. Clarke.)
Names
ANEILEMA Welwitschii C. B. Clarke [family COMMELINACEAE], in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 229. —Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 432; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 79.
Information
Minutely grey pubescent. Stems cæspitose on a bundle of thick roots clavate and subtuberous at their extremities. Fertile stems 10–16 in. long, rather robust, little divided, with many fully developed leaves. Leaves 3 by 2/3–1 in., oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, sessile, tip obtuse. Peduncle 2–4 in. long, terminal, with often a sheath or nearly obsolete leaf in the middle. Panicle in fruit 1 by 3/4 in., even in fruit very dense; flowers blue (Welwitsch). Capsule 1/5 by 1/6 in., quadrate-oblong, shining, thinly crustaceous, 4-seeded.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Huilla; edges of woods, Lake Ivantala, 3800–5500 ft., Welwitsch, 6596! Golungo Alto; marshy places between Catumba and Ohai, Welwitsch, 6597!
Notes
The leaves in 6596 are considerably broader than in 6597; but no one has doubted their being one species. I think this may be only a state of A. Schweinfurthii .
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 8, page 25, (1902) Author: (By C. B. Clarke.)
Names
ANEILEMA Welwitschii C. B. Clarke [family COMMELINACEAE], in DC. Monogr. Phan. iii. 229. —Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 432; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 79.
Information
Minutely grey pubescent. Stems cæspitose on a bundle of thick roots clavate and subtuberous at their extremities. Fertile stems 10–16 in. long, rather robust, little divided, with many fully developed leaves. Leaves 3 by 2/3–1 in., oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, sessile, tip obtuse. Peduncle 2–4 in. long, terminal, with often a sheath or nearly obsolete leaf in the middle. Panicle in fruit 1 by 3/4 in., even in fruit very dense; flowers blue (Welwitsch). Capsule 1/5 by 1/6 in., quadrate-oblong, shining, thinly crustaceous, 4-seeded.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Huilla; edges of woods, Lake Ivantala, 3800–5500 ft., Welwitsch, 6596! Golungo Alto; marshy places between Catumba and Ohai, Welwitsch, 6597!
Notes
The leaves in 6596 are considerably broader than in 6597; but no one has doubted their being one species. I think this may be only a state of A. Schweinfurthii .
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