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Dorstenia poinsettiifolia var.
poinsettiifolia
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Section |
Lomatophora |
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Type
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Herb |
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Body |
Rhizomatous, stem ascending, woody towards the
base |
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Height |
Up to 1,5 m tall |
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Leaves |
In spirals, oblong to elliptic to lanceolate,
occasionally three-lobed, sometimes broadest above the middle, |
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Flowers |
In pairs, green or purplish, flower stem 0,5 to 3
cm long, receptacle discoid and plane, occasionally convec.
Flowering face elliptic, occasiionally triangular, fringe 1-5 mm
broad, 2 primary appendages of 0,3-5 ,m long, occasionally 3
appendages, the third laterally, shortere then others. In
specimens with a broad fringe appendages might be almost lacking. |
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Reproduction |
Seed through fruit |
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Area |
In Cameroun, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Zaire;
In forest, often along streams or in marshy places;
At altitudes up to 1150 m. |
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Taxonomical details |
D. poinsettiifolia
Engleer var. poinsettiifolia. D. gabunensis Engler
(1898); D. poinsettiifolia var. grossedentata
Engler (1898); D. poinsettiifolia var.
subdentata Engler (1898); D. poinsettiifolia var.
undulata Engler (1898); D. tessmannii Engler (1911);
D. Yangambiensis J. Léonard (1949). |
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