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Berzelia alopecuroides

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Name

Identification
Berzelia alopecuroides Thunb. [family BRUNIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Berzelia ecklonii Pillans [family BRUNIACEAE ] Verified by Powrie, E., 1969 Berzelia intermedia (D.Dietr.) Schltdl. [family BRUNIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Berzelia intermedia
  • Berzelia alopecuroides
  • Berzelia ecklonii

Flora

Entry for BERZELIA alopecuroides Sond. [family BRUNIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 309, (1894) Author: (By W. SONDER).
Names
BERZELIA alopecuroides Sond. [family BRUNIACEAE]
Brunia alopecuroides Thunb. [family BRUNIACEAE], ! dissert. p. 6. R. & Sch. syst. veg. V. p. 411.
Information
smooth, leaves sessile, 6-ranked, imbricate, incurved, subulate, trigonal, obtuse, ustulate-apiculate, wider at base; heads of flowers ovate-globose, the size of a small pea, forming racemes at the tops of the lateral branches. A shrub 2–3 feet high, with the aspect of a Dacrydium. Branchlets purple, leafy. Leaves 1 1/2–2 lines long or shorter. Racemes 2–3 inches long. Head of flowers on leafy, 2–3 lines long branchlets, 2–3 lines in diameter. Petals spathulate.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA South Africa, Thunberg! October. (Herb. Thunb. Holm.)

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