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Berzelia abrotanoides

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Name

Identification
Berzelia abrotanoides (L.) Brogn. [family BRUNIACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for BERZELIA abrotanoides Brongn. [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 abrotanoides Brongn. [family BRUNIACEAE], l. c. p. 15
Brunia abrotanoides Linn. [family BRUNIACEAE], spec. p. 288. Berg. cap. p. 59. Thunb.! fl. cap. p. 207. Sieb. fl. cap. exs. No. 57. Herb. Un. itin. No. 138, 139. E. & Z.! No. 1059.
Information
branches glabrous or somewhat hairy; leaves sessile or very shortly petiolate, spreading, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, subtrigonal, ustulate at the apex; heads of flowers the size of a filbert, terminal, crowded, subcorymbose. 1–3 feet high, branches purplish, the uppermost fastigiate, very leafy. Leaves about 2–3 lines long, the upper smaller. Heads globose, the young ones elliptic. Flowers 4-cleft, 4-androus; or 5-cleft, 5-androus. Petals white, spathulate. Anthers oblong. Fruit glabrous, gibbous.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Plains near Capetown. Var. β. mountains near Tulbagh and Capetown; vars. γ. and ε. Franschehoek; var. δ. Table Mountain, Aug.-Dec. (Herb. Thunb. Holm. Sond. D.)

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