my-server
← Wiki

Canarina eminii

Canarina eminii is a species of flowering plant in the family Campanulaceae. It is an epiphytic or terrestrial, usually glaucous, herb. Its root is thick, often with a corky surface layer. Its stems are erect and scandent, pendent up to several meters in length, usually with a fine purplish mottling. Its leaves are triangular to ovate, up to long, acute with cordate to cuneate base, dentate, double dentate or double serrate. Its corollas are funnel-shaped to long, orange to orange-red with darker venation.

Distribution

It is found in upland and riverine forest, epiphytic or among rocks; altitude range . Very similar to C. abyssinica which is not epiphytic and has a slightly lower altitude range. It also lacks the purplish mottling of C. eminii and the leaves are triangular to pentagonal. Kenya: recorded in Elgon, Cheranganis, Tinderet, Mau, the Aberdares and Mount Kenya. Tanzania: recorded in Rungwe, Kiwira Forest. Uganda: recorded in Imatong Mountains and Mbale. Also recorded in Ethiopia, eastern Congo, Rwanda, Burundi and Malawi.

References

Sources

  • Collins Guide to the Wildflowers of East Africa by Sir Michael Blundell, 1987.
  • Upland Kenya Wild Flowers and Ferns by A.D.Q. Agnew, 2013.
  • http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/search?q=canarina