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Brachystelma flavidum

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Brachystelma flavidum Schltr.
Type of Brachystelma pygmaeum (Schltr.) N.E.Br. subsp. flavidum (Schltr.) R.A.Dyer [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Type of Brachystelma flavidum Schltr. [family APOCYNACEAE]
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Identification
Brachystelma flavidum Schltr. [family APOCYNACEAE ]
Related name
  • Brachystelma flavidum

Flora

Entry for BRACHYSTELMA flavidum Schlechter [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 518, (1909) Author: By N. E. BROWN.
Names
BRACHYSTELMA flavidum Schlechter [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xl. 94
Information
tuber depressed, up to 1 3/4 in. in diam.; stems several (?), branching, about 2 in. high, slender, puberulous, laxly leafy; leaves erectly spreading, not fully developed at the time of flowering, subsessile, up to 7 1/2 lin. long, 1 1/2–2 lin. broad, lanceolate-elliptic, acute, subglabrous; flowers few together in fascicles at the nodes; pedicels 2 lin. long, filiform, puberulous; sepals scarcely 1 1/4 lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate, puberulous; corolla 2 1/2 lin. long, lobed to 2/3 of the way down, entirely glabrous, yellowish; lobes free, spreading, long-acuminate from an ovate base; corona-lobes connate high up, 3-lobed, with the lateral lobes minute, ciliate, and the middle lobe larger, ligulate, obtuse, incurved, glabrous. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; Alexandra County, at Fairfield, 2200 ft., Rudatis, 68.
Notes
Said to be allied to B. caffrum, N. E. Br., and B. pulchellum, Schlechter, but distinguished by its more pointed corolla-lobes and different corona.

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