Isotype of Muraltia carnosaE. Mey. ex Harv. [family POLYGALACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
Muraltia carnosa
Flora
Entry for MURALTIA carnosa E. Mey. [family POLYGALACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 79, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
MURALTIA carnosaE. Mey. [family POLYGALACEAE], ! in Herb. Drege
Information
shrubby, glabrous, and somewhat viscid, with round branches; leaves petiolate, scattered, thick and fleshy, oval or subrotund, convex on both surfaces, smooth, muticous; pedicels very short, cernuous; sepals very obtuse, elliptic-ovate, alæ broadly oval, twice as long as the rest; petals shorter than the keel, linear, obtuse; capsule .....? A rigid shrub, a foot or more in height, more like a Mundtia than one of the present genus. The leaves are distinctly petioled, 2 lines long, 1 line wide, very thick and blunt: they spring from tubercular cicatrices. The ovary is oblong, without horns or tubercles; fruit unknown.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Zwarteberg, near Vrolyk, in moist, rocky places 4–5000 ft., Drege! (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.)