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Palisota barteri Hook. [family COMMELINACEAE]

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 3, Part 1,
Names
Palisota barteri Hook. [family COMMELINACEAE], in Bot. Mag. t. 5318 (1862); C. B. Cl. in BC., Monogr. Phan. 3: 132(1881); Troll in Beitr. Biol. Pfl. 36: 359, figs. 20 1, 21, 22 (1961); J. K. Morton l.c. 204 (1967).
Information
Usually stemless herb; flowers white, open from 4-6 p.m.; fruits green to purplish or red; in rain-forest.
Habitat
; in rain-forest.
Distribution
S. L.: Tingi Hills (Dec.) Morton & Gledhill SL 3020!Lib.: Gbanga (Aug.-Sept.) Linder 638! Baldwin 13236! Sanokwele (Sept.) Baldwin 9543! Kulo (fr. Mar.) Baldwin 11400! S. Nimba (fr. June) Adam 21523!Iv. C.: Banco Forest (Jan.) Leeuwenberg 2328!Ghana: Ejura Scarp (fr. Dec.) Morton GC 9756! Geaso (fr. Feb.) Andoh FH 5110!S. Nig.: Okomu F.R., Benin (fl. & fr. Dec.-Feb.) Lyaninko in Hb. Brenan 8884! Ifon (fr. Dec.) Stanfield 52! (Aug.) Stanfield 118! Omo F.R. (fl. 8 fr. Feb.) Jones 8 Onochie FHI 17515! Stubbs Creek F.R., Eket Dist. (May) Onoce FHI 32919!W. Cam.: Buea (Apr.) Hambler 182! Victoria (Dec.) Ndi FHI 50345! S. Bakundu F.R., Kumba (Jan.)F. Po: Mann 94!
Distribution (external)
E. Cameroun Congo
Notes
The above-cited specimens are all typical stemless P. barteri. Occasionally stems up to c. 120 cm. long are developed. The taxonomic status of such plants is doubtful. Examples are: S. L.: Tingi Hills (Dec.) Morton & Gledhill SL 3020! S. Nig.: Usonigbe F.R., Benin (Nov.) Keay FHI 125580! 25625! Okomu F.R., Benin (Dec., Feb.) E. W. Jones in Hb. Brenan 8606! Brenan 9019![The Liberia and Ghana specimens, with larger leaves more to rounded at base than usual, may prove to be taxonomically separable.
Palisota barteri Hook. [family COMMELINACEAE]
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