- Family: Amaranthaceae Juss.
- Genus: Celosia L.
Celosia nervosa C.C.Towns.
- Genus: Celosia L.
This species is accepted, and its native range is N. Mozambique.
[FZ]
Amaranthaceae, C. C. Townsend. Flora Zambesiaca 9:1. 1988
- Habit
- Herb, probably perennial, habit and size unknown, perhaps trailing or scrambling.
- Stem
- Stem and branches long and slender, terete, finely striate, more or less densely furnished with multicellular hairs.
- Leaves
- Leaves deltoid-lanceolate or feebly and obtusely hastate with low lateral lobes near the base, lamina to 4.5 × 1.5 cm., glabrous above, moderately pilose on the lower surface of the nerves, with a more or less densely pilose petiole up to 1.5 cm. long; superior leaves narrower and more shortly petiolate.
- Inflorescences
- Inflorescence white, terminal and axillary (that terminal on the main stem sometimes with one or more branches), spiciform, to c. 28 × 1.4 cm.; partial inflorescence compact, fasciculiform, up to c. 1.2 cm. in diam.
- Bracts
- Bracts and bracteoles deltoid, acute, membranous, stramineous when dry, 1.5–2 mm., shortly mucronate with the excurrent brownish midrib, glabrous or with slender multicellular hairs below.
- Tepal
- Tepals 2.75–3 m. long, oblong, acute, glabrous, white, stramineous when dry, the midrib excurrent in a short mucro and subtended on each side by two pairs of lateral nerves - one pair long and reaching almost to the apex of the tepals, the outer pair shorter.
- Filaments
- Filaments with the free apices only c. half the length of the basal cup; no intermediate teeth present.
- Pistil
- Ovary 5–7-ovulate; stigmas 2–3, equalling or exceeding the very short style.
- Fruits
- Capsule shortly ovoid, c. 2 mm., not exceeding the perianth.
- Seeds
- Seeds lenticular, black, shiny, c. 1.2 mm. in diam., densely sulcate-punctate.
Native to:
Mozambique
Celosia nervosa C.C.Towns. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Hooker's Icon. Pl. 38(3): 49 (1975)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
- Launert, E. (ed.) (1988). Flora Zambesiaca 9(1): 1-179. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Flora Zambesiaca
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