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Taxonomy
Crotonogyne strigosa Prain
Nomenclature
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Family: EuphorbiaceaeGenus: Crotonogyne
Media
SUMMARY
Shrub, more or less strigose with stiffish spreading hairs. Leaves scattered, short-petioled, thin, obovate or oblanceolate-oblong, rather long-acuminate, narrowed from beyond the middle to a narrow rounded or truncate base, margin sparingly strigose, 17–30 cm long, 6–10 cm wide, dark green, sparingly strigose on the nerves and veins on both surfaces; petiole 3–5 lin. long, densely strigose with spreading hairs; stipules narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 4–5 mm long, densely strigose externally. Racemes 15–25 cm long, simple, densely strigose with spreading hairs; male flowers in few-flowered glomerules 8– 13 mm apart; females few, solitary towards the apex of the racemes; pedicel densely strigose, in fruit 1.5–2 mm long; bracts densely strigose externally. Male: Calyx globose, closely and shortly pubescent externally, 0.5 mm wide, 3-lobed. Corolla campanulate, margin entire or slightly undulate; tube glabrous within. Stamens about 10, 4 outer; extra-staminal glands orbicular, glabrous, contiguous but quite free. Female: Calyx narrow-ovoid, densely strigose externally, 6 mm long; lobes 5, narrowlanceolate, acute, eglandular. Petals white, orbicular, imbricate, shorter than the calyx-lobes. Disk shallow-urceolate. Ovary strigose. Capsule densely strigose, 8 mm long.