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Aizoon contaminatum

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Identification
Aizoon contaminatum Eckl. and Zeyh. [family AIZOACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet, Galenia secunda (L. f.) Sond. [family AIZOACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on Sheet,
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  • Galenia secunda
  • Aizoon contaminatum

Flora

Entry for GALENIA secunda Sond. [family AIZOACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 386, (1894) Author: (BY W. SONDER.)
Names
GALENIA secunda Sond. [family AIZOACEAE]
Aizoon secundum Thunb. [family AIZOACEAE], ! Fl. Cap. 410.
Aizoon glinoides E. & Z. [family AIZOACEAE], ! 2131, 2232, 2134, 2135. Zeyher! 2633.
Aizoon elongatum E. & Z. [family AIZOACEAE], ! 2131, 2232, 2134, 2135. Zeyher! 2633.
Aizoon propinquum E. & Z. [family AIZOACEAE], ! 2131, 2232, 2134, 2135. Zeyher! 2633.
Aizoon contaminatum E. & Z. [family AIZOACEAE], ! 2131, 2232, 2134, 2135. Zeyher! 2633.
Information
stem herbaceous, decumbent, elongate as well as the branches and leaves villous or hirsute with white hairs; branches alternate, diffuse; branchlets short, leafy; leaves alternate, obovate, or obovate-spathulate, attenuated at the base, acute; flowers sessile, axillary, solitary, subsecundate. Stems 1–2 feet; branches gradually shorter. Leaves, when young, often opposite, on short petioles, 6–10 lines long, 2–4 lines wide, the upper ones much smaller and more approximate, often recurved at the apex, 1–3 lines long. Flowers in the ultimate branches appressed-hairy or hirsute, 1 line long. Calyx mostly 5-parted. Styles 3–5. In A. contaminatum, E. & Z.! the indument is more appressed and the leaves subtomentose, but A. propinquum is the intermediate form.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Near Amsterdammbatterie and Gorrichoogde, Dr. Pappe; Zwartland, Thunberg; in fields and Karro-like hills in the districts of Uitenhage and Swellendam, E. & Z.! var. β. near Zwartkopsriver and in Sneeuwberge. Drege! Aug.-Dec. (Herb. Thunb., Vind., D., Sd.)

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