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Asclepias cordata

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Filed as Asclepias cordata [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Type of Asclepias cordata Forssk. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Type of Asclepias cordata Forssk. [family APOCYNACEAE]
Filed as Asclepias laurifolia Michx. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Syntype of Asclepias cordata Forssk. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Syntype of Asclepias cordata Forssk. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Syntype of Asclepias cordata Forssk. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Filed as Asclepias laurifolia Michx. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Syntype of Asclepias cordata Forssk. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Isotype of Asclepias meadii Torr. in A. Gray [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Pergularia tomentosa L. [family APOCYNACEAE ] (stored under name); Asclepias cordata Forssk. [family APOCYNACEAE ]
Related name
  • Asclepias cordata
  • Daemia cordata
  • Asclepias acuminata
  • Asclepias meadii
  • Pergularia tomentosa

Flora

Entry for DÆMIA cordata R. Br. [family ]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 4, Part 1, page 231, (1904) Author: (By N. E. Brown.)
Names
DÆMIA cordata R. Br. [family ], in Mem. Wern. Soc. i. 50. —Decne. in DC. Prod. viii. 544.
DÆMIA incana Decne. [family ], in Ann. Sc. Nat. 2 sér., ix. 336.
DÆMIA tomentosa Pomel [family ], Nouv. Mat. Fl. Atl. 82; Vatke in Oest. Bot. Zeitschr. 1876, 146; K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 258.
Pergularia tomentosa Linn. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Mant. i. 53.
Asclepias cordata Forsk. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Flor. Ægypt.-Arab. 49.
Information
Stems shortly tomentose, with or without a mixture of long hairs, sometimes slightly hispid. Leaves deflexed; petiole 1/6– 3/4 in. long; blade 1/2–1 1/4 in. long, 5 lin. to 1 1/8 in. broad, cordate-orbicular or cordate-ovate, apiculate or shortly cuspidate, rather thick, tomentose on both sides. Flowers in a corymb-like raceme, which (including the peduncle) is 1–2 in. long, tomentose or shortly and softly hairy, as are also the 1/3–1 in. long pedicels, and the 1–2 lin. long ovate acute sepals. Corolla-tube 1 1/2–2 lin. long; lobes 3–3 1/2 lin. long, oblong-ovate, acute, bearded along their margins. Outer and inner coronal-lobes as in D. extensa, except that the inner coronal-lobes rarely exceed 2 1/2 lin. in length and have a shorter spur, which is about 1/3 lin. long. Follicles 1 1/2–2 1/2 in. long, ovoid, acuminate into a beak, more or less echinate, sometimes nearly smooth, minutely tomentose. Seeds 1/3 in. long, 1/4 in. broad, nearly flat, ovate, margined, minutely tomentose on both sides.
Range
Common in North Africa, and extends through Arabia and Syria into Beluchistan.
Distribution
Nubia Nile Land Sea-coast to between 3000 and 4000 ft., Bent! Danakil: near Fridelio, Hildebrandt, 734A (ex Vatke).
Notes
Very similar to D. extensa, but with smaller leaves and a shorter inflorescence. The flowers appear to be purple-brown.

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