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Dorstenia psilurus var psilurus
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Section |
Lomatophora |
Dorstenia psilurus
photo courtesy Scamperdale |
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Type
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Herb |
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Body |
Underground tubers, ascending or errect, often
but not densely branched, woody towards the base. |
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Height |
Up to 60 cm tall |
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Leaves |
Leaves crowded on top of the stem, green,
elliptic to oblong, broadest in or above the middle. Size
5-19 x 2-8 cm. |
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Flowers |
Flower stems 1-6 cm long, flowers solitary or in
pairs, ovate to linear, 1,2-5,5 long and up to 0,5 cm wide. Two
peduncles, upper one 2-10 cm long, lower one 0,3-3 cm long.
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Reproduction |
unknown |
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Area |
From Cameroun to Sudan, southwards to Angola,
Mozambique and Zimbabwe;
In forest, along rivers in woodland, also in secondary growth;
At altitudes up to ca. 1500 m. |
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Taxonomical details |
D. psilurus Welwitsch var. psilurus. D.
bicornis Schweinfurth (1871), by mistake as D. bicuspis
Schweinfurt in Bureau (1895); D. lukafuensis De
Wildeman (1902); D. psiluroides Engler (1911b); D.
psiluroides fo. subintegra Engler (1911b); D.
psilurus var. brevicaudata Rendle (1915); D.
psilurus var. compacta De Wildeman (1907); D.
stolzii Engler (1914). |
Dorstenia psilurus, photo courtesy Scamperdale Dorstenia psilurus, photo courtesy Scamperdale Dorstenia psilurus, photo courtesy Scamperdale
Dorstenia psilurus, photo courtesy Scamperdale
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