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Aspalathus cuneata

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Identification
Aspalathus cuneata D.Don [family LEGUMINOSAE ] Verified by H. Ohashi, Lespedeza cuneata (Dum.Cours.) G.Don [family FABACEAE ] Verified by H. Ohashi, Lespedeza sericea Miq. [family LEGUMINOSAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Buchenroedera meyeri
  • Lespedeza cuneata
  • Lotononis alpina
  • Buchenroedera multiflora
  • Aspalathus cuneata
  • Lotononis meyeri
  • Lespedeza sericea

Flora

Entry for BUCHENROEDERA Meyeri Presl [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
BUCHENROEDERA Meyeri Presl [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], Bot. Bem. p. 47;—Benth. l. c. p. 581.
Aspalathus cuneata E. Mey. α, retusa [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], ,! Comm. p. 37.
Information
loosely silky; leaflets cuneate, minutely acuminate; heads dense, the narrow oblong bracts shorter than the very villous calyx; all the petals villous; the vexillum 1 1/2 as long as the alæ and carina; legume very villous. 1–2 feet high, virgate, afterwards ramulous, straight, canescent, with copious, long and softly silky whitish or fulvous hairs. Leaflets like those of B. holosericea, or smaller. Bracts much shorter than the calyx, or rarely taper-pointed and nearly as long. Calyx 2–2 1/2 lines long. Vexillum twice as long.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Caffirland, between the Buffel and Kei Rivers, Drege! (Hb. Bth., D., Hk.)

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