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Aspalathus uniflora

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Filed as Aspalathus uniflora L. [family FABACEAE]
Filed as Aspalathus uniflora L. [family FABACEAE]
Isolectotype of Aspalathus willdenowiana Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE/FABACEAE]
Lectotype of Aspalathus leptophylla Eckl. & Zeyh. [family FABACEAE]
Filed as Aspalathus uniflora L. [family LEGUMINOSAE]
Isolectotype of Aspalathus willdenowiana Benth. [family FABACEAE]
Holotype of Aspalathus ericifolia L. [family LEGUMINOSAE]
Isotype of Aspalathus leptophylla Eckl.&Zeyh. [family LEGUMINOSAE]
Isolectotype of Aspalathus leptophylla Eckl. & Zeyh. [family FABACEAE]
Isotype of Aspalathus leptophylla Eckl. & Zeyh. [family FABACEAE]
Isolectotype of Aspalathus leptophylla Eckl. & Zeyh. [family FABACEAE]
Aspalathus uniflora L. subsp. willdenowiana L. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Isotype of Aspalathus macrantha Harv. [family FABACEAE]
Filed as Aspalathus uniflora L. [family FABACEAE]
Isolectotype of Aspalathus uniflora L. subsp. willdenowiana (Benth.) R.Dahlgren [family FABACEAE]
Aspalathus uniflora L. subsp. uniflora [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Aspalathus uniflora L. subsp. willdenowiana L. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Aspalathus uniflora L. subsp. uniflora [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Isolectotype of Aspalathus uniflora L. [family FABACEAE]
Isolectotype of Aspalathus leptophylla Eckl. & Zeyh. [family FABACEAE]
Aspalathus uniflora L. subsp. uniflora [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
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Name

Identification
Aspalathus uniflora L. [family LEGUMINOSAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet., Isotype of Aspalathus leptophylla Eckl.&Zeyh. [family LEGUMINOSAE ] Verified by Steinhof, M.,
Related name
  • Aspalathus macrantha
  • Aspalathus uniflora
  • Aspalathus cymbiformis
  • Aspalathus ericifolia
  • Aspalathus hystrix
  • Aspalathus verrucosa
  • Aspalathus leptophylla
  • Aspalathus willdenowiana

Flora

Entry for ASPALATHUS uniflora Linn. [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 uniflora Linn. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], Sp. p. 1001;—Benth. l. c. p. 613.
ASPALATHUS cymbæformis DC. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], Prod. 2. p. 140. E. & Z.! No. 1408.
ASPALATHUS scaphoides E. & Z. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], ! 1409. Sieb. Fl. Cap. 160. Zeyher, 2685.
Information
branches villoso-tomentose; leaves tufted, short, linear-terete, blunt, glabrous or hairy; flowers subsessile, solitary or in pairs; calyx-lobes leafy, 3- nerved, oblongo-cymbæform, concave, very obtuse, as long as the pubescent tube; vexillum villous; carina glabrous; legume pubescent, obliquely rhomboid, scarcely longer than the calyx. A much branched, divaricate, prostrate or spreading, ramuliferous shrub, with pale green foliage, variable in its pubescence, but easily known by the boat-shaped calyx-lobes.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Hills round Capetown and in the Cape District, common. (Herb. Bth., Hk. Sd., D.)
Notes
According to Bentham, this is the original A. uniflora of Linnæus (but not of Thunberg).

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