Isotype of Knowltonia vesicatoria(L.f.) Sims [family RANUNCULACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Rasmussen, H.,
Related name
Adonis capensis
Knowltonia vesicatoria
Flora
Entry for KNOWLTONIA vesicatoria [family RANUNCULACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
KNOWLTONIA vesicatoria [family RANUNCULACEAE], Bot. Mag. t. 775;—DC. Prod 1. p. 23. Bot. Reg. t. 936. E. & Z.! En. No. 8.
Information
subglabrous; leaves biternate, thick, segments ovate or cordate, serrulate or nearly entire, the lateral ones obliquely truncate at base, subsessile; peduncles spreading, umbellate, the umbel compound, many rayed; pedicels villous; petals spathulate, obtuse; ovaries glabrous, as long as the subulate style. Leaves a foot or more broad; the leaflets 3 inches long and 2 broad, often nearly entire. Flowers green. Berries blackish purple. The umbel, is said, by authors, to be unbranched and few flowered; but it is more frequently doubly and sometimes trebly compound, as is well represented in the figure in Bot. Reg. t. 936.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Common near Capetown, and throughout the Colony? also in Kaffirland, E. & Z.! &c. (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.)