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Aspalathus varians

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Identification
Aspalathus varians Eckl. & Zeyh. [family FABACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Dahlgren, R., Aspalathus varians Eckl. & Zeyh. [family FABACEAE ] Verified by Dahlgren, R., Aspalathus isolata (R.Dahlgren) R.Dahlgren [family FABACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Aspalathus isolata
  • Aspalathus ericifolia
  • Aspalathus varians

Flora

Entry for ASPALATHUS ericifolia 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 ericifolia Linn. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], Sp. p. 1000;—Benth.! l. c. p. 616.
ASPALATHUS ericoides E. Mey. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], Linn. 7. p. 160. Thunb.! Fl. Cap. p. 579.
ASPALATHUS varians E. & Z. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], ! 1428.
ASPALATHUS kannaensis E. & Z. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], ! No. 1412.
Information
diffusely much-branched; leaves tufted, short, linear, blunt, villous or glabrescent, the floral ones scarcely longer than the calyx tube; flowers lateral, in interrupted spikes toward the ends of the branches; calyx villous, its segments linear-subulate, bluntish, twice as long as the tube; the ovate-oblong vexillum and the keel villous; ovary 2-ovuled; legume obliquely ovate, acute, villous, equalling the calyx. Diffuse or prostrate, robust, 3–4 feet long, much and divaricately branched. Pubescence generally copious and soft, rusty or fulvous, sometimes scanty. Leaves 1–1 1/2 line long, sometimes drying black. Flowers extending from 1–2–3 inches along the branches, small and pale, 3 lines long.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Abundant on dry hills in the Cape and Stellenbosch Districts, &c. (Herb. Th., Bth. Hk., Sd., D.).
Notes
This is the plant of Thunberg's Herbarium; by Linnæus A. mollis and thymifolia, were confounded, fide Benth.! l. c.

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