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Australina procumbens

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Name

Identification
Isotype of Australina procumbens N.E.Br. [family URTICACEAE ] Didymodoxa capensis (L.f.) Friis & Wilmot-Dear [family URTICACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Australina procumbens
  • Didymodoxa capensis

Flora

Entry for AUSTRALINA procumbens N. E. Br. [family URTICACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, Part 2, page 541, (1925) Author: (By N. E. BROWN.)
Names
AUSTRALINA procumbens N. E. Br. [family URTICACEAE]
Information
an annual with prostrate radiating branches, drying blackish-green; main branches about 1/2 lin. thick, the others more slender, thinly pubescent with spreading hairs; leaves alternate; petioles 2–5 lin. long; blades 3–10 lin. long, 3–8 lin. broad, roundish-ovate, acute or subobtuse, very broadly or subtruncately cuneate at the base, and with 4–7 obtuse teeth or crenations on each side, thinly pubescent on both sides; stipules 1–1 1/2 lin. long, very broadly ovate, acute or acuminate, membranous, glabrous, ciliate; perianth of the male flowers 1 lin. long, obtuse or acute, mucronate, ciliate on the margins and with a few hairs on the point, otherwise glabrous, often very dark purple; female flowers 1 lin. long, much compressed, with one edge very acute, solitary or two united together into one body by their more obtuse edges, pubescent (especially along the margins) with long hairs; fruit about 1 1/4 lin. long. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Piquetberg Div.; Het Kruis, Misses Stephens & Glover, 8776!

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