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Aspalathus canescens

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Name

Identification
Aspalathus bowieana (Benth.) R.Dahlgren [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ] (stored under name); Aspalathus canescens L. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ] Aspalathus canescens L. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ]
Related name
  • Aspalathus bowieana
  • Aspalathus neanthes
  • Aspalathus laricifolia
  • Aspalathus canescens
  • Aspalathus
  • Aspalathus joubertiana

Flora

Entry for ASPALATHUS canescens Linn. [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 canescens Linn. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], Mant. p. 262;—Benth.! l. c. p. 625. Thunb.! Cap. p. 577. E. & Z.! No. 1448.
Information
leaves tufted, subulate, acute, canescent or silky; flowers solitary, lateral; calyx widely campanulate, villous, with subulate-acuminate teeth mostly shorter than the tube; vexillum pubescent, longer than the glabrous or pubescent carina; legume obliquely lanceolate, turgid, very villous. Erect or spreading, robust, much branched; branches virgate or ramulous. Leaves always pubescent, but sometimes thinly so; mostly canescent, and in β. almost silvery. Except in its pubescence it does not materially differ from the equally common A. laricifolia.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Western Districts from Capetown to Swellendam, common; the varieties chiefly in Swellendam. (Herb. Th., D., Bth., Hk., Sd.)

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