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Adenocline bupleuroides

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Identification
Isotype of Adenocline bupleuroides (Meisn.) Prain [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Adenocline pauciflora Turcz. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
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Flora

Entry for ADENOCLINE bupleuroides Prain [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, Part 2, page 216, (1925) Author: (By N. E. BROWN, J. HUTCHINSON and D. PRAIN.)
Names
ADENOCLINE bupleuroides Prain [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Ann. Bot. xxvii. 407
ADENOCLINE humilis Turcz. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. xxv. ii. 179, as to the plants of Meisner and Sonder, not of Turcz. l.c. xvi. 61.
ADENOCLINE pauciflora Müll. Arg. var. δ bupleuroides [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1140, as to Krauss, 1169 and Gueinzius, 172 only.
Mercurialis bupleuroides Meisn. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 557, as to Krauss, 1169 only; Krauss in Flora, 1845, 84; Baill. Adansonia, iii. 159, partly.
Diplostylis bupleuroides Sond. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Linnæa, xxiii. 114.
Diplostylis longifolia Sond. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Mss. in Herb. Harv.
Information
a diœcious herb with numerous erect virgately branching stems rising from a woody base; base horizontal, 2–3 in. long; herbaceous stems 1–1 1/2 ft. high; leaves alternate, firmly membranous, those nearest the base short-petioled, orbicular or obovate, obtuse, 1/2–1 in. long, 1/2 in. wide, those above sessile, ovate-lanceolate, lanceolate or linear, acute, 1–2 in. long, 1/6– 1/3 in. wide, base cuneate, margin sharply serrate, glabrous on both surfaces; petiole of lower leaves 1/5– 1/3 in. long, glabrous; stipules free, lanceolate, foliaceous, 1 1/2–2 lin. long, laciniate near the base; male flowers in axils of uppermost leaves, several to an axil; female flowers solitary, leaf-opposed, their pedicels abruptly reflexed; calyx-segments in both sexes usually 5; stamens 12–20; ovary glabrous; capsule 2 1/2 lin. wide, 3-dymous, smooth; seeds ovoid-globose, nearly black. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Uitenhage Div.; Elands River, Ecklon & Zeyher, 39, partly! Albany Div.; near Grahamstown, Miss Daly, 903! Featherstones Kloof, 2500 ft., Galpin, 255! East London Div.; near Nahoon, Rattray, 216! Komgha Div.; near the Gwenkala River, Flanagan, 695!EASTERN REGION Transkei; Krielis Country, Bowker, 286! Griqualand East; Mount Currie, 5300 ft., Tyson, 1798! 1833! Pondoland; St. Johns River, Drège, 5173! Natal; near Durban, Krauss, 1169; Gueinzius, 172! above Pinetown, 2200 ft., Wood, 5003! Clairmont, Wood, 10636! Inanda, 1800 ft., Wood, 253! Inchanga, 2000–3000 ft., Wood, 7184! Tugela, Haygarth in Herb. Wood, 10155! Ingoma, Gerrard, 1168! Nottingham, Buchanan, 149! near Krantz Kloof, 1500 ft., Schlechter, 3179! Dumisa, 2000 ft., Rudatis, 634! Zululand; Entumeni, 2000 ft., Wood, 741! Var. β: Transkei; Kentani, Miss Pegler, 871!

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