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Aspalathus florifera

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Identification
Aspalathus florifera R.Dahlgren [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ] (stored under name); Aspalathus glomerata Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ]
Related name
  • Aspalathus glomerata
  • Aspalathus florifera

Flora

Entry for Aspalathus florifera [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 florifera [family FABACEAE]
Common names
A. glomerata Benth. in Hooker, Lond. J. Bot. 7: 623 (1848), non L. f.; Harv., H. Cap. 2: 199 (1862); Fourcade, Mem. bot. Surv. S. Afr. 20: 50 (1941). Type as for A.florifera, above. A. glomerata L. f., Suppl. 321 (1781), is a synonym of A. capitata L.
Information
An erect or ascending, branched shrub, 0,8-2 m tall, with densely short-tomentose or sericeous branch ends. Leaves on inconspicu­ous, semi-globose leaf base tubercles. Leaflets piniform, (15—)20—35 mm long, slender, slightly incurved, yet somewhat rigid, silvery sericeous (-tomentose), except on the spine-tipped or mucronate apex. Inflorescence with 1-3(4) flowers together on lateral short-shoots, these distributed along the branches, often in fairly great number. Flowers rather small. Bract caducous, subulate or filiform, weak, 1,3-1,8 mm long, sericeous. Pedicel 1,5-2,5 mm long, sericeous. Bracteoles 1-1,6 mm long. Calyx tube cylindrical-campanulate, partly dark or purplish, sericeous; lobes nar­rowly triangular, 0,8-1,3 mm long, sericeous, tapering basally into a subulate, narrow, weak apex. Petals light, lemon-yellow or apical part of standard ± violet; wings and keel with claws somewhat shorter than the blades. Standard blades almost circular, 6,8-8 x (6,2-)7-7,5 mm, obtuse to retuse, with triangular-obtuse ears at the base, silky
Habitat
Similar to A. glabrescens (no. 255) but with longer, more silvery leaflets, longer pedicels, less prominent basal ears on the standard blade and shorter, more pointed calyx lobes.
Use
254. Aspalathus florifera Dahlg. in Op. bot. Soc. bot. Lund 9 (1): 278, 140 (1963); ibid. 10 (1): 216 (1965). Type: Cape, western side of Kaaiman's Gat, George Division, Bur-chell 5786 (K,holo.!).
Range
Distributed in the Langeberg and Outeniqua Mountains from the Riversdale Division in the west to the Knysna Division in the east. The habitat is steep, sandy slopes at 100-300 m altitude. Map 112.

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