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Capnitis clandestina

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Identification
Lotononis platycarpa (Viv.) Pic.Serm. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by van Wyk, B.-E., Capnitis clandestina E.Mey. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ] Lotononis clandestina (E.Mey.) Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ]
Related name
  • Leobordea clandestina
  • Lotononis clandestina
  • Lotonis clandestina
  • Lotononis platycarpa
  • Capnitis clandestina

Flora

Entry for LOTONONIS clandestina Benth. [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
LOTONONIS clandestina Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], ! l. c. p. 607
Capnitis clandestina E. Mey. [family FABACEAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], ! Comm. p. 81.
Information
procumbent, dichotomous, tomentoso-canescent; stipules very minute; petioles short, leaflets (small) obovate-oblong; flowers in pairs or solitary, sub-sessile; calyx tubular, tomentose, with short teeth, the lowest subulate, very narrow; vexillum and alæ shorter than the calyx, the carina exserted, arched, tomentose; legume tomentose, scarcely longer than the somewhat enlarged calyx.Benth.Slender, repeatedly forked, with leaves and flowers at the forks; the internodes longer than the leaf. Petiole 1–2 lines long; leaflets 2–2 1/2 lines. Flowers 3 lines long, the calyx 1/2-line wide, in fruit 1 1/2 lines. I have only seen the single specimen in Herb. Benth. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Plains of the Gariep, between Verleptram and Natvoet, Drege. (Herb. Bth. Sd.)

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