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Asclepias aphylla

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Name

Identification
Cynanchum gerrardii (Harv.) Liede [family ASCLEPIADACEAE ] (stored under name); Sarcostemma aphyllum (L.) R.Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE ] Sarcostemma tetrapterum Turcz. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE ] Cynanchum sarcostemmatoides K.Schum. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE ] Asclepias aphylla Thunb. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE ] Verified by Brown, N.E.,
Related name
  • Sarcostemma viminale
  • Asclepias aphylla
  • Sarcostemma tetrapterum
  • Cynanchum sarcostemmatoides
  • Sarcostemma aphyllum
  • Cynanchum gerrardii

Flora

Entry for CYNANCHUM sarcostemmatoides K. Schum. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 518, (1909) Author: By N. E. BROWN.
Names
CYNANCHUM sarcostemmatoides K. Schum. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C, 323;—N. E. Br. in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. i. 399.
CYNANCHUM sarcostemmoides K. Schum. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Engl. and Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 252.
Sarcostemma aphyllum R. Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Mem. Wern. Soc. i. 51, partly; E. Meyer, Comm. 221; Harv. Gen. S. Afr. Pl. ed. 1, 224; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 116; D. Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 907; Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 538; K. Schum. in Engl. and Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 256; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 10; xxi. Beibl. 54, 11 and in Journ. Bot. 1896, 457.
Asclepias aphylla Thunb. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Prodr. Pl. Cap. 47; in Nov. Act. Acad. Petrop. xiv. (1805), 506; Fl. Cap. ed. 2, ii. 153, and ed. Schultes, 234, partly, as confirmed by one of the three specimens in his herbarium; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1262.
Sarcostemma tetrapterum Turcz. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], (and Monostemma tetrapterum, Turcz., and M. aphyllum, Turcz. ex Index Kewensis, ii. 260) in Bull. Soc. Mosc. 1848, i. 255.
Sarcostemma Thunbergii G. Don [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Gen. Syst. iv. 156.
Sarcocyphula Gerrardi Harv. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Thes. Cap. ii. 58, t. 191, and Gen. S. Afr. Pl. ed. 2, 237.
Information
stem very similar to that of Sarcostemma viminale, but more slender, 3/4–1 1/2 lin. thick, twining, succulent, leafless or with minute sessile ovate acute rudimentary leaves 1/4– 3/4 lin. long, glabrous; flowers few or several, umbellately fascicled on short lateral tubercles, which with age grow to 1/8 in. long and are marked with the contiguous spirals of scars of fallen flowers; pedicels 1–2 lin. long, glabrous; sepals 1/4– 1/3 lin. long, ovate, acute, glabrous; corolla rotate or perhaps slightly recurved, about 2 1/2 lin. in diam.; lobes 1 lin. long, oblong-ovate, acute, glabrous on both sides, green; corona cup-shaped, 5-toothed, white, arising from the base of the staminal column and as long as it, 2/3– 3/4 lin. long, including the shortly ovate or oblong teeth, which are inflexed over the backs of the anthers, with 5 pairs of keels decurrent from their margins within the tube; below the keels the corona is attached to the staminal column by 5 short septa; anther-appendages broad and rounded, inflexed in 5 marginal depressions of the pentagonal style-apex, which has a small truncate central boss; follicles solitary (always?), 2 in. long, 3–3 1/2 lin. thick, terete, acuminate, smooth, glabrous; seeds flattened, 1/8 in. long, ovate, softly pubescent on both sides. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa.
Distribution
COAST REGION Uitenhage Div.; between Sundays River and Addo, Drège! hills between the Zwartkops River and Sundays River, Zeyher, 671! near Uitenhage, Ecklon, 56 (ex Turczaninow). Bathurst Div.? Glenfilling, Drège! Albany Div.; hill near the Botanic Garden, Grahamstown, Tidmarsh! and without precise locality, Bowker! King Williamstown Div.; near King Williamstown, Weale!EASTERN REGION Natal; Tugela, Gerrard, 1321! Mooi River Thorns, Wood, 4339!
Notes
Thunberg gives the localities “Karoo across Hartequas (Attaquas) Kloof' in Oudtshoorn Div., and “near the Hex River” in Worcester Div. for his Asclepias aphylla, but I do not know which locality belongs to the present plant and which to Sarcostemma viminale, both being named A. aphylla in his herbarium.

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