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Identification
Anchusa capensis Thunb. [family BORAGINACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for ANCHUSA capensis Thunb. [family BORAGINACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 2, (1904) Author: By C. H. WRIGHT.
Names
ANCHUSA capensis Thunb. [family BORAGINACEAE], Prodr. 34;—Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 163; Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 336; Drège, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 90; Bot. Mag. t. 1822; DC. Prod. x. 45.
Anchusa sp. Drège [family BORAGINACEAE], l.c. 62.
Information
stem herbaceous, sulcate, erect, 1–2 ft. high, hirsute, usually unbranched; lower leaves oblanceolate, up to 5 in. long and 4 lin. broad, upper smaller and not narrowed below, hirsute with bulbous-based hairs; panicles terminal, formed of alternate racemose cymes; calyx 1 1/2 lin. long, hispid outside; lobes 5, obtuse; corolla-tube about as long as the calyx; nutlets rugose, rather granular. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Carnarvon Div.; between Carnarvon and Elands Valley, Burchell, 1579! Beaufort West Div.; between Beaufort West and Rhenoster Kop, 2500–3000 ft., Drège, 7856b!COAST REGION Malmesbury Div.; Zwartland and Saldanha Bay, Thunberg. Swellendam Div.; Swellendam, Pappe! Zeyher! on the downs near the strand of Cape Recife, Zeyher, 28! 1246b! Queenstown Div.; Hangklip Mountain, 6300 ft., Galpin, 1616!WESTERN REGION Little Namaqualand; Silver Fontein, near Ookiep, 2000 ft., Drège!

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