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Cerastium viscosum

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Name

Identification
Cerastium viscosum L. [family CARYOPHYLLACEAE ] (stored under name); Cerastium viscosum L. [family CARYOPHYLLACEAE ] Verified by P. D. Sell,
Related name
  • Cerastium vulgatum
  • Cerastium viscosum
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  • Cerastium vulcanicum
  • Cerastium fontanum

Flora

Entry for CERASTIUM viscosum Linn. [family CARYOPHYLLACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 120, (1894) Author: (By W. SONDER.)
Names
CERASTIUM viscosum Linn. [family CARYOPHYLLACEAE], Sp. p. 627. excl. syn.;—E. & Z.! 269.
CERASTIUM vulgatum [family CARYOPHYLLACEAE], L. Herb., non Sp. pl. E. Bot. t. 789. E. & Z. 267 ex parte.
CERASTIUM glomeratum Thuill. [family CARYOPHYLLACEAE], Fl. Dan. t. 1921.
CERASTIUM ovale Pers. [family CARYOPHYLLACEAE], Syn. 1. p. 521.
Information
annual, clothed with a soft, glandular or non-glandular pubescence; stem erect or ascending, branched; leaves subrotund and oval, the lower tapering into a petiole; cymes many-flowered, with glomerate branches, all the bracts herbaceous and the calyces bearded at tip; fruiting pedicels as long as the calyx or shorter. 6–12 inches high, yellowish-green, the branches mostly ascending. Leaves larger than in the preceding. Panicle cymoid, crowded, at length more effuse and open. Fruit stalks erect or inclined. Petals as long as the calyx; capsule twice as long.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Cape Flats and round Table Mt., in sandy places, E. & Z.! Groenekloof and the Paarl, Drege! (Herb. Sond., T.C.D.).

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