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Aspalathus willdenowiana

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Identification
Aspalathus verrucosa L. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ] Aspalathus uniflora L. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ] (stored under name); Aspalathus willdenowiana Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ]
Related name
  • Aspalathus uniflora
  • Aspalathus hystrix
  • Aspalathus verrucosa
  • Aspalathus willdenowiana

Flora

Entry for ASPALATHUS Willdenowiana 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 Willdenowiana Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], l. c. p. 630;—Benth.
ASPALATHUS verrucosa Willd. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], non L. E. Mey.! Comm. p. 50.
ASPALATHUS hystrix E. & Z. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], ! 1481, non. Linn. f.
ASPALATHUS uniflora Thunb. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], non L.
Information
branches rigid, the leaf tubercle unarmed or spinoso mucronulate; leaves setaceo-filiform, subglabrous, acute; flowers solitary or few, on very short pedicels; calyx villous, widely and obliquely campanulate, with subulate, acuminate teeth as long as the tube; vexillum villous; carina glabrous, strongly arched and beaked; stigma scarcely oblique; legume obliquely lanceolate, very villous. A tall shrub, erect and loosely branched; branches virgate, tapering off to a fine point, the younger twigs pubescent, older nearly glabrous. Leaves densely tufted, slender, 1/2– 3/4 inch long. Flowers 1/2 inch long, the vexillum subsessile and very wide. Ovules 6. Stigma much less oblique than in the following. Legume 6 lines long, 2 1/2 wide.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Hill sides, Puspas Valley, Swell. E. & Z.! Cape Town Hills, Drege! Hout Bay, Alexander Prior! (Herb. Bth., Sd., Hk., Th.)

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