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Berzelia lanuginosa

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Identification
Berzelia lanuginosa (L.) Brongn. [family BRUNIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by HBG-formal name change, 2007 Berzelia lanuginosa (L.) Brongn. [family BRUNIACEAE ] Verified by HBG-formal name entry, 2007 Brunia abrotanoides L. [family BRUNIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Brunia lanuginosa
  • Brunia abrotanoides
  • Berzelia lanuginosa
  • Brunia comosa

Flora

Entry for BERZELIA lanuginosa 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 lanuginosa Brongn. [family BRUNIACEAE], l. c. p. 16, t. 1, f. 1
Brunia lanuginosa Linn. [family BRUNIACEAE], spec. p. 288. Berg. Cap. p. 60. Pluk. phyt. t. 318, f. 4. Wendl. coll. t. 11. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 572. Sieb. fl. cap. exs. No. 56. Drege, No. 6860. Zeyher, 2642.
Information
branches fastigiate, young ones villous; leaves sessile, imbricate, erect or spreading, linear-filiform, triquetrous, obtuse, apiculate, rather pilose; heads of flowers the size of a pea, at the tops of the lateral branches, disposed in a fastigiate panicle. A greyish shrub, 3 feet or more in height, branches virgate, very leafy. Leaves straight, sulcate above, 2–3 lines, in var. β. 4–5 lines long. Heads about 3 lines in diameter; peduncles 2–4 lines long, villous, scaly. Bracteæ spathulate, smooth, at top callous. Petals suberect, oblong-lanceolate. Anthers oblong.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Moist places in mountains near Capetown, in Hottentottsholland, Caledon, and Swellendam, Oct. (Herb. Thunb., Holm., Wendl., Willd., Hk., D., Sd.)

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