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Adenocline stricta

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Name

Identification
Adenocline stricta 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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  • Adenocline stricta
  • Adenocline pauciflora

Flora

Entry for ADENOCLINE stricta 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 stricta Prain [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1912, 338;—Prain in Ann. Bot. xxvii. 406.
Information
a diœcious herb, woody below, strictly virgately branching upwards, 8–9 in. high; internodes 1/3– 1/2 in. long; leaves alternate, sessile, firmly membranous, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, acute, base broad confluent with the stipules, margin sharply serrate, 1/3– 1/2 in. long, 1/5– 1/4 in. wide; stipules like the leaves but slightly smaller, 1/5– 1/4 in. long, 1/6– 1/5 in. wide; male flowers not seen; female flowers solitary, leaf-opposed, their pedicels abruptly reflexed; calyx-segments 5, their margins serrate; ovary glabrous; capsule 1 1/2 lin. wide, 3-dymous, smooth. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Bredasdorp Div.; Reit Fontein Poort, 100–200 ft., Bolus, 8603! Schlechter, 9694!
Notes
A remarkably distinct species.

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