Entry for ASPALATHUS Burchelliana Benth. [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 BurchellianaBenth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], ! l. c. p. 623;—Benth.! l. c.
Information
“leaves tufted, long, linear-terete, scarcely mucronate, somewhat fleshy, glabrous; flowers subsolitary, shorter than the leaves; calyx widely campanulate, pubescent, its teeth much shorter than the tube; vexillum villous, rather longer than the tomentose carina; legume thick, turgid, villous.” “At first sight, very similar to A. verrucosa, but easily known by its villous flowers and legume. Branchlets thick, tomentose, tuberculate. Leaves 8–10 lines long, numerous, incurved. Calyx 1 1/2 lines long. Corolla twice as long. Carina arched, longer than the alæ.”— Benth.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA From Burchell's collection, No. 7456.
