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Brunia arachnoidea

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Name

Identification
Berzelia arachnoidea (J.C.Wendl.) Eckl. & Zeyh. [family BRUNIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Brunia arachnoidea J.C.Wendl. [family BRUNIACEAE ] Verified by Heinrichs, J., 2010
Related name
  • Berzelia squarrosa
  • Berzelia arachnoidea
  • Brunia arachnoidea

Flora

Entry for BERZELIA squarrosa Sond. [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 squarrosa Sond. [family BRUNIACEAE]
Brunia squarrosa Thunb. [family BRUNIACEAE], ! dissert. p. 5, (1804).
Brunia rubra Willd. [family BRUNIACEAE], ! Denkschrift. Acad. Muench. (1808), t. 4, f. 1. Spreng. syst. 1, p. 782.
Brunia arachnoidea Wendl. [family BRUNIACEAE], coll. t. 62. (1810). E. & Z.! No. 1057.
Brunia ericoides Wendl. [family BRUNIACEAE], l. c. t. 5, f. (non bona).
Brunia plumosa Lam. [family BRUNIACEAE], Enc. 1, p. 475?
Brunia superba Reichenb. [family BRUNIACEAE], hort. bot. t. 100, excl. syn., analysis incorrect.
Heterodon superbum Meisn. [family BRUNIACEAE], gen. 72 (52).
Information
branches glabrous, younger ones cobwebbed; leaves petiolate, spreading or recurved, linear-lanceolate, trigonal, ustulate at the apex, glabrous, younger ones pilose; heads of flowers size of a nut, terminal or axillary, racemose. A shrub with greyish or yellowish branches; branchlets often verticillate. Leaves flat or subcanaliculate above, keeled beneath, 1/2–1 inch long, about 3/4 line wide. Heads globose, 4–6 lines in diameter; peduncle 5–6 lines, in fruit often an inch long, in var. γ, much shorter, villous, and scaly. Receptacle hairy. Calyx 5-dentate, never 10-dentate as described by Reichenbach, the teeth blunt, unequal, 3 are longer and gibbous. Petals oblong, spathulate. Anthers ovate, cells diverging at the base. Style simple. Fruit about 1 line long.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Mountain rivers in the districts of Worcester, Caledon, and Swellendam. Thunb. E. & Z.! Dr. Pappe, Zey. 2641, 2643. Drege, 6842. (Herb. Thunb., Willd., Wendl., Sond., D.)

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