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Aulax pinifolia

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Identification
Aulax pinifolia P.J.Bergius [family PROTEACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for AULAX pinifolia Berg. [family PROTEACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 502, (1912) Author: By J. HUTCHINSON, E. P. PHILLIPS and O. STAPF.
Names
AULAX pinifolia Berg. [family PROTEACEAE], Descr. Pl. Cap. 33;—Knight, Prot. 15; R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 49; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 212.
Aulax umbellata E. Meyer [family PROTEACEAE], in Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 97 (and 167 partly), not of R. Br.
Leucadendron pinifolium Linn. [family PROTEACEAE], Mant. 36.
Leucadendron cancellatum Linn. [family PROTEACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. i. 91.
Protea pinifolia Linn. [family PROTEACEAE], Mant. alt. 187; Thunb. Diss. Prot. 25; Prodr. 26; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 127; Willd. Spec. Pl. i. 515; Lam. Ill. i. 237; Andr. Bot. Repos. t. 76 (♀); Poir. Encycl. v. 651.
Protea bracteata Thunb. [family PROTEACEAE], Diss. Prot. 27, t. 1 (♂); Prodr. 26; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 128; Linn. fil. Suppl. 118; Willd. Spec. Pl. i. 517; Lam. Ill. i. 238; Poir. Encycl. v. 652.
Lepidocarpendron etc. Boerh. [family ], Ind. Pl. Hort. Lugd. Bot. ii. 193, t. 193 (♀)?
Pini foliis planta, etc. Burm. [family ], Rar. Afr. Pl. 193, t. 70, fig. 3 (♂).
Conophorus Capensis pinifolius Petiv. [family ], Op. i, 3, no. 458, t. 25, fig. 7 (♀).
Information
a shrub, up to 6 ft. high; leaves more or less needle-shaped and semiterete, more rarely distinctly widened upwards and there up to 1 lin. wide, acute or subacute, 1 1/2–6 in. long, usually much curved; male racemes 3/4–1 in. long; bracts up to 2 lin. long, exceeding or in old racemes equalling the ultimately lengthened pedicels; perianth yellow, 3–3 1/2 lin. long including the 2–2 1/4 lin.-long limb; anthers about 1 lin. long, usually at length recurved; style 2 1/2–3 lin. long, very slender; female heads 1/2–1 in. long and 1–1 1/2 in. across when mature; involucral branches not bearing flowers, more or less fused below into a shallow receptacle, quite glabrous, at length hard and woody; dorsal leaves lanceolate-linear to subulate, acute, 3/4–1 1/2 (or more) in. long; central axis ending in a compact tuft of barren (at length hardened) subulate bracts, including them 1/2 in. long; bracts subulate 3–1 lin. long; perianth 4 lin. long, including the slightly more than 1 lin.-long spreading or recurved segments; style 2 1/2 lin. long, long persistent; nut obovoid, dorsally more convex than ventrally, 2 1/2–3 lin. long, ribbed, lateral ribs fringed all round with a fulvous silky beard up to 2 lin. long, dorsal and ventral ribs and faces shortly tomentose or the ventral rib with longer hairs, faces transversely and more or less prominently veined. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Paarl Div.; Paarl Mountain, Drège, ♂, ♀! Cape Div.; Muizenberg, Ecklon, 122 b, ♂! Table Mountain, Burchell, 527, ♂, ♀! near Cape Town, Schmieterlich, 183, ♂! Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentots Holland, Thunberg, ♂! Caledon Div.; Knoflooks Kraal and Little Houw Hoek, Zeyher, 3634, ♂, ♀! Nieuwe Kloof, Burchell, 8148, ♀! lower part of the Lange Bergen, near Garcias Pass, Burchell, 6951, ♂, ♀! George Div.; Lange Kloof, Drège, ♀! Knysna Div.; between Plettenbergs Bay and Knysna, Burchell, 5352, ♂, ♀!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Ecklon, ♂! Thunberg, ♂! Sparmann, ♂!
Notes
Protea bracteata was described from female specimens, and the specimen named so in Thunberg's own herbarium at Upsala is no doubt identical with Berg's A. pinifolia; but two specimens in Montini's and Alstroemer's Herbarium in the Stockholm collections, received from Thunberg, and also named P. bracteata, are A. pallasia.

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