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Aspalathus attenuata

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Holotype of Aspalathus attenuata R.Dahlgren [family FABACEAE]
Filed as Aspalathus attenuata R.Dahlgren [family FABACEAE]
Isotype of Aspalathus attenuata R.Dahlgren [family FABACEAE]
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Identification
Aspalathus attenuata R.Dahlgren [family FABACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Dahlgren, R., 1963 Aspalathus acuminata Lam. [family FABACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Aspalathus attenuata R.Dahlgren [family FABACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Aspalathus attenuata
  • Aspalathus divaricata
  • Aspalathus acuminata

Flora

Entry for Aspalathus attenuata [family FABACEAE]
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Aspalathus attenuata [family FABACEAE]
Information
A procumbent to ascending, rather spar­sely branched shrublet with straight, rigid, spreading branches 0,3-0,8 m long; young branches densely short-villous. Leaflets spread­ing (not pressed against the branches), linear, l,5-2,5(-3,5) mm long, succulent, 0,4-0,7 mm, convex, succulent, abaxially glabrous, mucronulate. Pedicel 1,5-2,2 mm long, short-tomentose. Bracteoles 0,4-1 mm long. Calyx tube c. 2 mm long, subglabrous or with scat­tered short hairs; lobes triangular, 1-1,8 mm long including an apical cusp c. 0,5 mm long, glabrous, green, slightly carnose. Petals light yellow or standard partly violet. Standard blade 5,8-8 X 3,2-6,3 mm, apically rounded to acute, short-sericeous on apical half and on base of back. Wing blades 2,9-4,7 X 1,4-2 mm, glabrous. Keel rostrate, attenuate (hence the specific name), 5-6 mm long, 2,1-2,8 mm broad at middle, apically prolonged but obtuse, glabrous. Pistil short-sericeous on up­per parts of ovary and upper side of style base; style slender, curved. Pod broadly triangular-lanceolate, 7,5-8,5 X 3-3,2 mm, very sparsely appressed-puberulous on most parts. Figure 112:11-19.
Habitat
Closely related to A. lenticula (no. 215), A. micro­phylla (no. 213) and other species around A. divaricata (no. 206).
Use
214. Aspalathus attenuate Dahlg. in Op. bot. Soc. bot. Lund 9 (1): 272, 202 (1963); ibid. 21: 291 (1968). Type: Cape, Houw Hoek, Caledon Division, Wall (LD, holo.!; S).
Range
Known only from the Houwhoek region in the Caledon Division, the Sir Lowry's Pass region in the Somerset West Division and the Klapmuts-Wellington regions in the Paarl Division. Growing in sand (Table Mountain Sandstone pro­ducts) at rather low altitudes. Map. 96.

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