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Elytraria marginata Vahl [family ACANTHACEAE]

Date Updated: 5 February 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of West Tropical Africa, Vol 2,
Names
Elytraria marginata Vahl [family ACANTHACEAE], Enum. Pl. 1: 108 (1804); Milne-Redhead in Exell Suppl. Cat. S. Tomé 37 (1956); Morton l.c. 51. Elytraria crenata [family ACANTHACEAE], of F.T.A. 5: 27 (1899), excl. syn. F.T.A. 5: 509 (1900), Cat. Talb. 139, not of Vahl (1805). Elytraria acaulis [family ACANTHACEAE], of F.W.T.A., ed. 1, 2: 261 (1931), not of (Linn. f.)Lindau (1897). Elytraria squamosa Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE], in Anal. fis.-geogr.Costa Rica 8: 299 (1895), partly (Afr. specimens), and in Schlechter Westafr. Kautschuk-Exp. 314; Wiss. Ergebn. 1907-08: 291; Chev. Bot. 491, partly (excl. Chev. 16074), not Verbena squamosa Jacq. (1797). Elytraria lyrata Vahl [family ACANTHACEAE], l.c. 106 (1804): Morton l.c. 54, fig. 3. Elytraria acaulis var. lyrata (Vahl) Bremek. [family ACANTHACEAE], l.c. 251 (1955).
Information
Stem up to 9 in. high, with small white or bluish flowers 1/4-1/3 in. long in narrow stiff spikes with sharp-pointed bracts.
Distribution
Guin.: Badabou valley (fr. Oct.) Schnell 7600!S. L.: Newton (fl. & fr. Nov.) Deighton 1485! York Pass, 1,300 ft. (fr. Nov.) T. S. Jones 183! Kamalu (fr. May) Thomas 394! Gegbwema (fr. Nov.) Deighton 402! Lowoma, Nomo (fl. 8 fr. Oct.) Fisher 47!Lib.: Grand Bassa T. Vogel 93! Sinkor (fl. 8 fr. July) Barker 1384! Soplima (Nov.) Baldwin 10023! 10025! Bobei Mt. (Sept.) Baldwin 12503! Ganta (June) Baldwin 6102!Iv. C.: Divo (fr. July) Aké Assi 4363! Tiapleu (fr. Sept.) Aké Assi 3276! Amitioro (fr. Dec.) Aké Assi 4486! Guédeyo, Soubré (fl. 8 fr. Dec.) Leeuwenberg 2163!Ghana: Cape Coast Brass! Farmar 519a! Obuasi (fl. 8 fr. June) Andoh 4216! Amentia Irvine 444! Volta R., near Jaketi (fl. 8 fr. Jan.) Morton GC 8021! Afram Mankrong F.R. (fl. 8 fr. Dec.) Adams 4936!N. Nig.: Lokoja (fl. & fr. Oct.) Dalz. 198! Sanga River F.R. (fr. Nov.) Keay FHI 22265!S. Nig.: Lagos Millen 24! Dalz. 1140! Aguku Dist. Thomas 723! Onitsha Barter 1302! Degema (fr. Sept.) Holland 138! Oban Talbot 386![Br.] Cam.: Man o’war Bay Schlechter 12386! Johann-Albrechtshöhe Staudt 453! Bakosi, Kumba (fl. 8 fr. May) Olorunfemi FHI 30572!F. Po: T. Vogel 75!
Distribution (external)
Cameroun Gabon Congo (partly) E. Africa
Notes
[A polymorphic species which is accepted here in a broad sense. The reviser feels quite unable to distinguish specimens with lyrate leaves in specific rank.-H.H.]
Elytraria marginata Vahl [family ACANTHACEAE]
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