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HERB. HORT. EDINB
3120S AesJ yYVGO™
MADAGASCAR
LAMIACEAE
Si Achryospermum
Achyrospermum purpureum Phillipson
ISoTY?PE Prov. ANTSIRANANA: National Park
ae of Ambohitra (Montagne d'Ambre).
Det.: P. Phillipson & I. Hedge Along road in park.
July 1996 12°31'S 49°10'E 900 m
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Herb to 50 cm in slightly open places
in forest. Poorly branched. Inflores-
cence always terminal occasionally also
on short lateral branches in the upper
nodes. Bracts white with faint green
venation usually subtending three
flowers. Calyx wine-red, white in the
r tube inside. Corolla, filaments wine-
%
red. Style shading from pale to deep
28 June 1987
Pete Phillipson 1969
~ w MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN HERBARIUM (MO)
wine-red at the apexr minutely bilobed
stigma lobes white. Anthers brown.
Leaves dark green, flossy. above, pale
and dull below, thin textured. Stems
often with pseudo-dichotomy.
(Sp. Nov. ?)
ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN
EDINBURGH : ae — 28 June 1987
i ne Tt NiseGuet Ae a HERBARIUM (MO)
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