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Aspalathus nervosa

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Syntype of Aspalathus nervosa E. Mey. [family FABACEAE]
Lectotype of Aspalathus nervosa E.Mey. [family FABACEAE]
Type of Aspalathus nervosa E.MEy. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Isotype of Aspalathus nervosa E.Mey. [family FABACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Aspalathus nervosa E.MEy. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ] Aspalathus spicata Thunb. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Aspalathus spicata
  • Aspalathus nervosa

Flora

Entry for ASPALATHUS nervosa E. Mey. [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 nervosa E. Mey. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], ! Comm. p. 62;—Benth.! l. c. p. 613.
Information
branches thinly tomentose; leaves tufted, linear-carinate, mucronate, appressedly-pubescent, subcanescent; flowers lateral and terminal, solitary or in pairs; calyx turbinate, tomentose, furrowed, its lobes lanceolate, subfalcate, three-ribbed, nearly equalling the tube, much shorter than the villous vexillum; carina glabrous; ovary villous. A much branched, densely ramuliferous robust bush, with rusty or foxy, short, close pubescence. Leaves 2–3 lines long, spreading or squarrose. Flowers either solitary on the ends of very short, leaf-crowned ramuli, or in sessile lateral leaf-tufts, or sometimes 2 together at the ends of the branches, very abundant, pale yellow, with rusty tomentum outside. Alæ very narrow, much shorter than the keel, which nearly equals the vexillum.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Grassy hills near Swellendam, Mundt. Thom! Rocky places in the Nieuwekloof, Drege! (Herb. Hk., Bth.)

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