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Aptosimum nanum

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Identification
Isotype of Aptosimum nanum Engl. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Aptosimum indivisum Burch. ex Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
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  • Aptosimum nanum
  • Aptosimum indivisum

Flora

Entry for APTOSIMUM indivisum Burchell [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 121, (1904) Author: By W. P. HIERN, F.R.S.
Names
APTOSIMUM indivisum Burchell [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Trav. S. Afr. i. 219, 225;—Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 345; Wettstein in Engl. & Prantl. Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B, 44, fig. 21 C.
APTOSIMUM nanum Engl. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Jahrb. x. 249.
Ohlendorffia rosulata Nees ab Esenb. ex Benth. [family ], in DC. Prodr. x. 345.
Information
a dwarf undershrub, densely leafy, 3/4–3 in. high; rootstock more or less woody; stem short, woody, in many cases shortly and closely branched or sometimes scarcely divided; branches extremely short; leaves densely cæspitose, spathulate or linear-spathulate, very acute or spiny-cuspidate or apiculate at the apex, gradually attenuate into the more or less strongly ciliate or nearly glabrous petiole, minutely tomentose or minutely papillose or often nearly glabrous, sometimes ciliate especially about the base, 1/2–1 in. long, 1/8– 1/6 in. broad, crowding the flowers; petioles longer than or nearly as long as the leaves; bracteoles narrowly linear, puberulous, about 1/5 in. long, inserted at the base of the calyx or on the short pedicels; flowers sessile or subsessile, 2/3– 7/8 in. long, about equalling or shorter than the leaves; calyx about 1/3 in. long, divided half-way down, or rather deeper; lobes unequal, ovate-acuminate, shortly pubescent or cottony within, ciliate on the margin; corolla purple or blue, with black or dusky purple spots at the throat; tube contracted below within the calyx; anthers ciliate; capsules persisting for a long time after the fall of the corolla. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Calvinia Div.; Bitterfontein, 3000–4000 ft., Zeyher, 1320! Ceres Div.; Hangklip in the Bokkeveld karroo, near Ongeluks River, Burchell, 1217! at Yuk River or near Yuk River Hoogte, Burchell, 1252! Prince Albert Div.; at Weltevrede, by the Gamka River, 2500–3000 ft., Drège, 620! Gamka River, Mund & Maire! Murraysburg Div.; in stony places near Murraysburg, 4000 ft., Tyson, 358! Beaufort West Div.; near the Gamka River, Burke! Fraserburg Div.; near Fraserburg, 4200 ft., Bolus, 7893! Hopetown Div.; near Hopetown, 4500 ft., Muskett in Herb. Bolus, 2211!COAST REGION Mossel Bay Div.; Karoo near Gauritz River, below 1000 ft., Zeyher! Bedford Div.; near the Fish River, Burke!KALAHARI REGION Griqualand West; between Kuruman and the Vaal River, Cruickshank & Muskett in Herb. Bolus, 2211! Groot Boetsap, 3900 ft., Marloth, 754! Hay Div.; Asbestos Mountains, at the Kloof village, Burchell, 1656! on the veldt at Dutoits Pan, Tuck, A! Transvaal; Boschveld, at Menaars Farm, Rehmann, 4849!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Forster!WESTERN REGION Little Namaqualand; near Ookiep, Morris in Herb. Bolus, 5719!
Notes
This is the Aptosimum mentioned by Burchell, Trav. S. Afr. i. 341. The amount and extent of the hairs on the margins of the leaves and petioles are very variable; in Burchell's type specimens (1217) the leaves are in some cases very nearly glabrous, while in others they are ciliate below the middle, and the petioles are nearly glabrous or ciliate; in his original description he characterized the leaves as pubescent or often naked. The specimens (1252) gathered by him two days later in the same division, and considered by him to be the same species (see Burchell, l.c. i. 225) have their leaves and petioles strongly ciliate, just as in Engler's A. nanum. The calyx-lobes in the only flower examined of A. nanum are slightly shorter than in Burchell's type of A. indivisum.

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