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Aspalathus pungens

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Name

Identification
Aspalathus acuminata Lam. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ] Verified by W.H.H., Aspalathus acuminata Lam. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ] (stored under name); Isotype of Aspalathus acuminata Lam. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ] Aspalathus acuminata Lam. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ] Aspalathus subinermis Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ] Aspalathus pungens Thunb. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ] Verified by W.H.H., Aspalathus spinescens Eckl. & Zeyh. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ]
Related name
  • Aspalathus pungens
  • Aspalathus secunda
  • Aspalathus acuminata
  • Aspalathus subinermis
  • Aspalathus spinescens

Flora

Entry for ASPALATHUS pungens Thunb. [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 pungens Thunb. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], ! Fl. Cap. p. 584;—E. & Z.! No. 1494.
ASPALATHUS secunda E. Mey. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], ! Comm. p. 47. Benth. l. c. p. 649.
Information
divaricately much branched, spinescent; leaves tufted, linear-terete, mucronate, glabrous; flowers racemulose; calyx pubescent, the teeth triangular-acuminate, needle-pointed, shorter than the turbinate tube; the vexillum and the arched and rostrate carina silky, longer than the alæ; ovary 2-ovuled; legume obliquely lanceolate, silky-villous. Densely branched and ramuliferous; every branchlet ending in a needle-pointed reddish or yellow spine. Leaves 2–3, rarely 4 lines long, slender, but not so sharp as in A. vulnerans. Flowers on a spinescent rachis, 4–5 lines long, yellow. Legumes clothed with white hairs, 5 lines long.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Near Brackfontein, Clanwilliam, E. & Z.! Riebeckskasteel, Drege, Bowie, &c. (Herb. Th., Bth., D., Hk.)
Notes
This is the true ‘ pungens ’ of Thunb.! in Herb. Upsal.

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