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Aizoon hirsutum

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Identification
Isotype of Aizoon hirsutum Eckl. and Zeyh. [family AIZOACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet, Aizoon glinoides L.f. [family AIZOACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on Sheet,
Related name
  • Aizoon glinoides
  • Aizoon hirsutum

Flora

Entry for AIZOON glinoides Linn. fil. [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
AIZOON glinoides Linn. fil. [family AIZOACEAE], Suppl. 261;—Thunb.! Fl. Cap. 410.
AIZOON hirsutum E. & Z. [family AIZOACEAE], ! 2130. Fenzl.! in herb Drege, Zeyher, 2632.
Information
stems herbaceous, elongate, procumbent, as well as the leaves and calyces hirsute with long white hairs; leaves alternate, obovate, mucronate or acute, petiolate; flowers axillary, sessile; lobes of the calyx ovate-acuminate; styles 5 short. Stem 1–2 feet long, subflexuose, terete. Ultimate branches short. Leaves about 1 inch long, 4–8 lines wide, on the branches smaller, attenuated in the short petiole. Lobes of the spreading calyx 2 lines long, white or yellowish-white, and glabrous above. Stamens very numerous, shorter than the calyx-lobes. Capsule when ripe much depressed in the middle, 5-angled, papulose, 3 lines in diameter.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Karrolike places near Zwartkopsriver, Onaggasvlakt, Grahamstown, Koega-river, E. & Z.! Col. Bolton, Drege, Krauss. T. Williamson, and near Port Natal, Drege. April-Sept. (Herb. Thunb. Vind. D. Sd.)

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