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Agathosma minuta

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Type of Agathosma bicornuta R.A.Dyer [family RUTACEAE]
Type of Agathosma minuta Schltdl. [family RUTACEAE]
Syntype of Agathosma minuta Schltdl. [family RUTACEAE]
Type of Agathosma minuta Schltdl. [family RUTACEAE]
Filed as Agathosma minuta Schltdl. [family RUTACEAE]
Agathosma minuta Schltdl. [family RUTACEAE]
Type of Agathosma bicornuta R.A.Dyer [family RUTACEAE]
Type of Agathosma bicornuta R.A.Dyer [family RUTACEAE]
Filed as Agathosma minuta Schltdl. [family RUTACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Agathosma minuta Schltdl. [family RUTACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Schlechtendal,
Related name
  • Agathosma thymifolia
  • Agathosma microphylla
  • Agathosma bicornuta
  • Agathosma minuta

Flora

Entry for AGATHOSMA minuta Schlect [family RUTACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 369, (1894) Author: (By W. SONDER.)
Names
AGATHOSMA minuta Schlect [family RUTACEAE], ! Linn. 6, p. 206;—E. & Z.! 886 exclus. sp. from Zwarteberg.
Information
twigs downy; leaves (minute) patent or reflexed, thickish, oblong-elliptical, or oval, obtuse, concave above, somewhat keeled and sparsely gland-sprinkled beneath; flowers umbellate; peduncles and calyx glabrous; cal.-lobes roundish; claws of the petals equalling the calyx, limb obovate-elliptical, narrowed at base; sterile filaments linear, wider and pubescent in the middle; ovary and style glabrous. Scarcely 6 inches high, in ramification and whitish colour of the branches resembling the last, differing in the leaves, never orbicular, but oval, thicker, more strongly nerved beneath, and prominently keeled, scarcely more than 1/2 line long. Umbels 4–8 flowered; peduncles glabrous, 1–1 1/2 line long. Petals thrice as long. Stamens longer than the petals; the sterile 1/3 shorter. Carpels 3, cylindrical. Style lengthening.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Kars-river and Potberg, E. & Z.! Between Cape L'Agulhas and Potberg, Drege! 7121. Aug.-Oct. (Herb. Lehm., T.C.D., Sond.)

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