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Asclepias fruticosa

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Identification
Asclepias fruticosa L. [family APOCYNACEAE ]
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  • Asclepias fruticosa

Flora

Entry for ASCLEPIAS fruticosa Linn. [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
ASCLEPIAS fruticosa Linn. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. i. 216;—Lam. Encycl. i. 283 and Ill. ii. 323, t. 175, fig. 2; Thunb. Prodr. 47, in Nov. Act. Acad. Petrop. xiv. (1805) 507, Fl. Cap. ed. 2, ii. 154, and ed. Schultes, 234; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, i. 308; Pers. Syn. i. 276; Willd. Sp. Pl. 1271, and Enum. Hort. Berol. 279; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. Beibl. 54, 7; Journ. Bot. 1896, 451, and Ann. Naturhist. Hofm. Wien, xv. 67, Rand in Journ. Bot. 1903, 337; N. E. Br. in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. i. 330.
ASCLEPIAS glabra Mill. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Gard. Dict. ed. 8, no. 12.
ASCLEPIAS salicifolia Salisb. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Prodr. 150.
ASCLEPIAS crassifolia Linn. ex Decne [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in DC. Prodr. viii. 572.
Gomphocarpus fruticosus R. Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Mem. Wern. Soc. i. 38; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, ii. 80; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 87; Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 849; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 143; Decne in Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 2, ix. 324, and in DC. Prodr. viii. 557; Reichb. Fl. Germ. xvii. t. 1071; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 7; xx. Beibl. 51, 31; Rand in Journ. Bot. 1903, 200.
Gomphocarpus frutescens E. Meyer [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], (error for fruticosus), Comm. 202; Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 900 partly; Meisn. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 1843, 543 (by error 443).
Information
a shrub 3–10 ft. high; branches erect, puberulous; leaves more or less ascending; petiole 2–4 lin. long; blade 2–6 in. long, 2–9 lin. broad, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, mucronate, or rarely aristate, cuneate-acute at the base, with revolute margins, glabrous or minutely puberulous; umbels pedunculate, lateral at the nodes, racemose, 6–10-flowered; peduncles 3/4–1 1/2 in. long, pubescent or puberulous; bracts 3–4 lin. long, linear-subulate, puberulous, deciduous; pedicels 1/2– 3/4 in. long, puberulous; sepals 1 1/2–2 lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent or puberulous; corolla-lobes reflexed, 3 1/2–4 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, ovate-oblong, obtuse, glabrous on both sides, usually but not always ciliate along one margin; corona-lobes arising about 1/2 lin. above the base of the staminal column and reaching its summit, erect, compressed-cucullate, subrectangular in side view, with the apical angles of the sides produced into recurving narrowly falcate teeth, rising considerably above the rest of the lobe, their tips incurved towards each other; margins of the sides narrowly winged outside; no tooth or horn within; follicles 2–3 in. long, ovoid, tapering into a beak, minutely tomentose and beset with bristles, which are nearly or quite glabrous. null
Range
Also in North and Tropical Africa, the Mascarene Isles, Madeira, Canaries, Arabia and South Europe, perhaps naturalised in some of the localities.
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Graaff Reinet Div.; near Graaff Reinet, 2500 ft., Bowie! Bolus, 195! Colesberg Div.; near Colesberg, Knobel, 7!COAST REGION Cape Div.; Simons Bay, MacGillivray, 590! Orange Kloof, Wolley Dod, 3286! Oudtshoorn Div.; near the Olifants River, Thom, 185; Riversdale Div.; near the Gauritz River, Krauss, 1258 (ex Meisner); near Riversdale, Penther, 832. George Div.; near Silver River, Penther, 812. Knysna Div.; near Knysna, Penther, 825 (all ex Schlechter). Queenstown Div.; near Shiloh, 3500 ft., Baur, 10! 846! plains near Queenstown, Galpin, 1699!EASTERN REGION Natal; near Greytown, Wilms, 2142! near Ladysmith, Wood, 4755! and without precise locality, Gueinzius!KALAHARI REGION Griqualand West; Lower Campbell, Burchell, 1806! Orange River Colony; Bethlehem, Richardson! Leeuw Spruit and Vredefort, Barrett Hamilton! Pargs, 4500 ft., Rogers, 802! Harrismith, Sankey, 241! Transvaal: near Pretoria, Kirk, 29! Miss Leendertz, 73! Wilms, 950! Burtt Davy, 2161! 2184! near Lydenburg, Wilms, 950! Platsand, Rogers, 629! Irene, Burtt Davy, 741! Fourteen Streams, Burtt Davy, 1565! Crocodile River, Burtt Davy, 235! near Johannesburg, Rand, 859! 1127! Ommaney! Modderfontein, Conrath, 996! Pilgrims Rest, Greenstock!SOUTH AFRICA without locality; Herb. Linnæus! Herb. Miller! Thunberg! Masson! Niven, 23! Sieber, 138! Pappe!WESTERN REGION Little Namaqualand; by the Orange River near Varleptpram, Drège, 3045b! and without precise locality, Wyley!
Notes
Specimens with ovoid or ellipsoid shortly and acutely pointed follicles are probably of hybrid origin between this species and A. physocarpa.

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