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ASTRIPOMOEA cephalantha (Hall. f.) Verdc. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1963) Author: B. VERDCOURT (East African Herbarium)
Names
ASTRIPOMOEA cephalantha (Hall. f.) Verdc. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in K.B. 13 : 197 (1958). Type : Tanganyika, Mwanza, Stuhlmann 4521 (B, holo.†)
Astrochlaena cephalantha Hall.f. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in E.J. 18 : 122 (1893); Bak. & Rendle in F.T.A. 4 (2) : 126 (1905)
Information
Stems erect, clothed with long woolly hairs. Leaves borne on the peduncles, ovate-lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing to the subcordate base; petioles 1.6 cm. long. Flowers in dense axillary heads; peduncle 6.5 cm. long; bracts exceeding the sepals, broadly ovate, long-acuminate at the apex, subcordate; midrib very prominent. Outer sepals broadly ovate,1.2 cm. long, 1 cm. wide, acute. Corolla white with purple centre, 5 cm. long.
Range
DISTR. T1 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
c. 1000 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Mwanza, Stuhlmann 4521
Notes
This species has not been seen and the description is derived from the original. The inflorescences, bracts and flower-colour suggest a form of A. hyoscyamoïdes var. melandrioïdes but nothing seen of this affinity has had even a trace of cordate leaf-bases. The locality is a well collected one.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1963) Author: B. VERDCOURT (East African Herbarium)
Names
ASTRIPOMOEA cephalantha (Hall. f.) Verdc. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in K.B. 13 : 197 (1958). Type : Tanganyika, Mwanza, Stuhlmann 4521 (B, holo.†)
Astrochlaena cephalantha Hall.f. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in E.J. 18 : 122 (1893); Bak. & Rendle in F.T.A. 4 (2) : 126 (1905)
Information
Stems erect, clothed with long woolly hairs. Leaves borne on the peduncles, ovate-lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing to the subcordate base; petioles 1.6 cm. long. Flowers in dense axillary heads; peduncle 6.5 cm. long; bracts exceeding the sepals, broadly ovate, long-acuminate at the apex, subcordate; midrib very prominent. Outer sepals broadly ovate,1.2 cm. long, 1 cm. wide, acute. Corolla white with purple centre, 5 cm. long.
Range
DISTR. T1 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
c. 1000 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Mwanza, Stuhlmann 4521
Notes
This species has not been seen and the description is derived from the original. The inflorescences, bracts and flower-colour suggest a form of A. hyoscyamoïdes var. melandrioïdes but nothing seen of this affinity has had even a trace of cordate leaf-bases. The locality is a well collected one.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1963) Author: B. VERDCOURT (East African Herbarium)
Names
ASTRIPOMOEA cephalantha (Hall. f.) Verdc. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in K.B. 13 : 197 (1958). Type : Tanganyika, Mwanza, Stuhlmann 4521 (B, holo.†)
Astrochlaena cephalantha Hall.f. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in E.J. 18 : 122 (1893); Bak. & Rendle in F.T.A. 4 (2) : 126 (1905)
Information
Stems erect, clothed with long woolly hairs. Leaves borne on the peduncles, ovate-lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing to the subcordate base; petioles 1.6 cm. long. Flowers in dense axillary heads; peduncle 6.5 cm. long; bracts exceeding the sepals, broadly ovate, long-acuminate at the apex, subcordate; midrib very prominent. Outer sepals broadly ovate,1.2 cm. long, 1 cm. wide, acute. Corolla white with purple centre, 5 cm. long.
Range
DISTR. T1 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
c. 1000 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Mwanza, Stuhlmann 4521
Notes
This species has not been seen and the description is derived from the original. The inflorescences, bracts and flower-colour suggest a form of A. hyoscyamoïdes var. melandrioïdes but nothing seen of this affinity has had even a trace of cordate leaf-bases. The locality is a well collected one.
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