| Cyanotis arachnoidea C.B. Clarke |
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| Family : COMMELINACEAE |
| Protologue : Monogr. Phan. 3: 250 (1881) |
| Information on the genus : Cyanotis |
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Status
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| Status for TA : | accepted (present) |
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| Synonym(s) Homotypic |
 Cyanotis arachnoidea C.B. Clarke var. arachnoidea |
| Tonningia arachnoidea (C.B. Clarke) Kuntze |
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| Synonym(s) Heterotypic |
| =Cyanotis bodinieri H. Lév. & Vaniot |
| =Cyanotis labordei H. Lév. & Vaniot |
| =Tradescantia incana B. Heyne ex C.B. Clarke |
| =Tradescantia lanata B. Heyne ex C.B. Clarke |
| =Cyanotis lanata var. lanuginosa K. Schum. (1905) |
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| Taxon infra-specific |
| Cyanotis arachnoidea C.B. Clarke var. arachnoidea |
| Cyanotis arachnoidea var. pilosa Brenan |
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| Ecology and distribution |
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| Biology : |
Creeping, perennial, succulent, much branched, prostrate herb; stems to c. 45 cm long; |
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see more in the book |
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| Ecology : |
Character species of the Cyanotis arachnoidea-Urena lobata-community, together with Heterotis decumbens, Anchomanes difformis, Asystasia gangetica, etc. in herbaceous fringes of inselbergs; rocks; woodland; Loudetia arundinacea grassland |
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Comprises 2 vars. – Holotype of var. pilosa Brenan: Stanfield 98, collected on 15 September 1957 !, with flowers. The same number was also collected on 12 June 1957 (Brenan in Kew Bull. 24: 353, 1970). |
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Perhaps an African subsp. of C. lanata; this perennial form has succeeded in spreading into India (fide Morton, 1967). |
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India, Laos, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, China, Taiwan. Also in N Tanzania ? – Listed from Angola by Figueiredo & Smith, Pl. Angola: 177, 2008 (specim. Gossweiler 9843) and Succ. fl. Angola (Haseltonia 15: 74), 2009. |
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Bibliography for Tropical Africa :
- Fl. Trop. E. Afr., Commeli. Commel.: 24 (2012)
- Darbyshire, I. Kordofami, M. & al. (2015). The plants of Sudan and South Sudan, An annoted checklist. Kew Publishing
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