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Eriocaulaceae
Eriocaulon henryanum Ruhland
EOL Text
S and W Yunnan [Thailand, Vietnam].
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Leaves ensiform-linear, 4--8 cm, 1.5--3 mm wide at middle, veins 7--11. Scapes 1--4, (8--)25(--37) cm, 5- or 6(--8)-ribbed; sheath 4--9 cm; receptacle villous; heads subglobose, 4--9 mm in diam., glaucous; involucral bracts reflexed, straw-colored, obovate, 1.8--2.8 × 1.5--2.7 mm, rigid, membranous, subglabrous; floral bracts obovate-oblanceolate, abaxially villous toward apex. Male flowers: sepals blackish, spathelike, 1.5--3.2 mm, abaxially white clavate hairy toward 3-lobed to 3-cleft apex; petals 3, linear, anterior one ca. 2 × as long as others, villous, gland black to brownish; anthers dusky to black. Female flowers: sepals 3, free, boatlike, villous and white clavate hairy, anterior one occasionally keeled, lateral ones keeled or not; petals 3, spatulate, anterior one larger than others, membranous, villous, gland borne on only 2 or all 3 petals, black; ovary 3-loculed; style 3-cleft. Seeds ovoid, 0.8--0.9 mm; testa hexagonally reticulate, prickles linear. Fl. and fr. Apr--Sep.
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Holotype for Eriocaulon henryanum f. viviparum Moldenke
Catalog Number: US 1050934
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): J. Norton
Year Collected: 1919
Locality: Kuliang Hills, near Foochow., Fujian (Fukien), China, Asia-Temperate
- Holotype: Moldenke, H. N. 1976. Phytologia. 33: 373.
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Type collection for Eriocaulon henryanum Ruhland in Engl.
Catalog Number: US 457065
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): A. Henry
Locality: Meng-Tze., Yunnan, China, Asia-Temperate
- Type collection: Ruhland, W. O. 1903. Pflanzenr. 13 (IV. 30): 86.
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Type collection for Eriocaulon henryanum Ruhland in Engl.
Catalog Number: US 457066
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): A. Henry
Locality: Meng-Tze., Yunnan, China, Asia-Temperate
- Type collection: Ruhland, W. O. 1903. Pflanzenr. 13 (IV. 30): 86.
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Damp soil in valleys; 1600--4000 m.
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