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Borago africana

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Identification
Borago africana L. [family BORAGINACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Trichodesma africanum
  • Borago verrucosa
  • Borago orientalis
  • Borago africana
  • Psilostemon orientale

Flora

Entry for TRICHODESMA africanum R. Br. [family BORAGINACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 2, (1904) Author: By C. H. WRIGHT.
Names
TRICHODESMA africanum R. Br. [family BORAGINACEAE], Prodr. 496;—Lehm. Pl. Asper. 195; Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. iv. 69, 753; Drège, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 93; A.DC. in DC. Prod. x. 173; Drège in Linnæa, xx. 197.
Borago africana Linn. [family BORAGINACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 197; Burm. Prodr. 4; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 161.
Borago verrucosa Forsk. [family BORAGINACEAE], Fl. Ægypt.-Arab. 41
Borago constatinopolitano flore reflexo Sab. [family BORAGINACEAE], Hort. Rom. 2, t. 22.
Borraginoides aculeata Moench [family BORAGINACEAE], Meth. 516.
Pollichia africana Medik. [family ILLECEBRACEAE], Beobacht. 248.
Information
stem erect, branched, 1 ft. or more high, furnished with rigid white hairs springing from a discoid base; leaves opposite, ovate-oblong, acute, up to 2 1/2 by 1 in., bearing hairs like the stem, lower petioled, upper sessile; panicle many-flowered; pedicels up to 6 lin. long, slender, covered (like the outside of the calyx) with stiff white hairs 1 lin. long; calyx-lobes lanceolate, erect, 3–4 lin. long at flowering time; corolla scarcely exserted from the calyx, blue, throat yellow with 5 purple spots; lobes rounded, produced into an apiculus 3/4 lin. long; anthers lanceolate, awn nearly as long as the cells; style filiform, glabrous; nutlets 4, ovoid, scabrid, rugulose on the ventral side, margin raised, white and spiny. null
Range
Also in tropical Africa.
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Calvinia Div.; by streams in the Karroo below Bockland (Bokkeveld) Thunberg. Ceres Div.; at Yuk River, near Yuk River Hoogte, Burchell, 1264!KALAHARI REGION Orange River Colony; near the Vaal River, 5000 ft., Zeyher, 1239!WESTERN REGION Little Namaqualand; between Kousies (Buffels) River and Silver Fontein, 2000 ft., Drège! between Verleptpram and the mouth of the Orange River, under 1000 ft., Drège! near Ookiep, 3200 ft., Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 641!

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