Entry for ASPALATHUS glomerata 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 glomerataBenth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], ! l. c.)
Information
“leaves tufted, long, subulate, pungent-mucronate, rigid, silky-tomentose; flowers lateral, glomerato-racemose, much shorter than the leaves; calyx widely campanulate, tomentose, truncate, with setaceous teeth much shorter than the tube; vexillum broadly ovate, villous, scarcely longer than the glabrous carina; legume obliquely ovato-lanceolate, woolly.”—Benth. l. c. “Branches thickish, softly pubescent. Leaf-tufts distant, or crowded at the ends of the branchlets. Leaves very numerous in each cluster, the larger an inch long. Flowering branch often lengthening a little from the fasciculus, bearing 4–12 flowers, separately or 2–3 together, subtended by 1–3 leaves; pedicels often a line long. Calyx 1 line long. Corolla 4 lines. Legume less deflexed than in neighbouring species, but not mature in the specimen examined.” Benth. l. c.
