CYANOTIS ANGUSTA
Author:
Charles Baron Clarke, 1881
Family:
COMMELINACEAE
Origin:
Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo
Elevation:
Publisher:
A.L.P.P.de Candolle & A.C.P.de Candolle, Monogr. Phan. 3: 260 (1881)
Collection number:
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Thickness:
2-5 Centimetres
Height:
8 Centimetres
Propagate:
Seeds
CITES:
Synonyms:
Tonningia angusta, Kuntze, 1891.
Cyanotis bulbifera, Hutch. 1939.
This member of the Commelinaceae family was given this name by Charles Baron Clarke in 1881. It is found in Benin, Burkina, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo, growing in a well drained soil with some water and some sun. The caudex can grow from two to five centimetres in diameter, the entire plant to eight centimetres in height. The flowers are blue or purple. It seems like Kuntze's idea with Tonningia didn't catch.
The genera name from Latin; cyaneus; 'blue'. The species name means 'narrow' for the leaves.
Flower
Blue - Purple
Soil
Mix
Water
Medium
Sun
Medium
