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Borbonia cordata

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Name

Identification
Borbonia cordata L. [family FABACEAE: FABOIDEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Borbonia
  • Aspalathus cordatus
  • Borbonia cordata

Flora

Entry for BORBONIA cordata Lin. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
BORBONIA cordata Lin. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], Sp. p. 994;—DC. Prod. 2. p. 120. Benth. l. c. p. 461. Jacq. Schoenb. t. 218. E. & Z.! No. 1210.
Information
robust, densely much branched; the branches very villous; leaves densely imbricated, cordato-ovate, acuminate and pungent, many-nerved, glabrous, with very entire rib-like margins; flowers sub-capitate; calyx-tube densely barbate, segments glabrous. A robust shrub, 1–2 feet high, with very rigid and sharply pungent, perfectly smooth leaves; 3/4–1 inch long, 1/2 inch wide, spreading to all sides. The hairiness is confined to the branches and calyces.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Mountains round Capetown, common. (Herb. Thb., Bth., Hk., Sd., D.)

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