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Aspalathus cephalotes

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Identification
Aspalathus cephalotes Thunb. [family FABACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Aspalathus cephalotes Thunb. [family FABACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Aspalathus spicata
  • Aspalathus forbesii
  • Aspalathus cephalotes

Flora

Entry for ASPALATHUS Forbesii Harv. [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 Forbesii Harv. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
ASPALATHUS cephalotes Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], ! l. c. p. 615. non Thunb. nec. E. & Z.
Information
robust, rigid, ramuliferous; leaves tufted, short, blunt, linear, fleshy, pubescent or glabrous; flowers capitate; calyx hairy, its lobes lanceolate, rather longer than the tube; vexillum oval-oblong, villous, longer than the glabrous or pubescent carina; ovary 2-ovuled. A much-branched, woody bush (2–3 feet high?). Branches tomentose. Leaves 2 lines long, very obtuse, subtrigonous or terete, shrinking when dry, Heads globose, terminating short branchlets 1–2, rarely three inches long, the calyces much longer than the involucrating leaves. Calyx teeth 2 lines long, its tube rather roughly but shortly pubescent. Petals externally silky villous.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA S. Africa, Forbes! (Herb. Hk., Bth.)

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