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Aspalathus acanthophylla

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Name

Identification
Aspalathus acanthophylla Eckl. & Zeyh. [family FABACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Aspalathus acanthophylla Eckl. & Zeyh. [family FABACEAE ] Verified by Dahlgren, R., 1963 Aspalathus chamissonis Vogel [family FABACEAE ] Verified by Harvey, W.H., Aspalathus hystrix Not on sheet [family FABACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Aspalathus hystrix
  • Aspalathus acanthophylla
  • Aspalathus chamissonis

Flora

Entry for ASPALATHUS Chamissonis Vog. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
ASPALATHUS Chamissonis Vog. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], Linn. 10. p. 597;—Benth.! l. c. p. 619.
ASPALATHUS acanthophylla E. & Z. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], ! 1496.
Information
branchlets and gemmæ spiniferous; leaves tufted, short, linear-terete, blunt, silky-canescent; flowers solitary; calyx softly villous, widely campanulate, with subulate teeth scarcely equalling the tube; petals glabrous; ovary 2-ovuled; legume obliquely ovato-lanceolate, thick, softly pubescent. A robust, straggling, thorny bush; the spines either ending the branches, or issuing from the middle of the leaf-tufts. Leaves 2–3 lines long, canescent, shorter than the horizontally patent spines. Flowers small and yellow. E. & Z. give Swellendam as the district where Mundt gathered this plant; but the original specimen in Hb. Hook., and of which Ecklon's seems to be a branch, is marked as above in Mundt's hand-writing.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Tigerberg, Chamisso. Swellendam, Pappe! 223. Sides of Table Mountain, 1–2000f. Mundt.! Oct. (Herb. Hk., Sd., D.)

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