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Ceratotheca triloba

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Identification
Ceratotheca triloba (Bernh.) Hook.f. [family PEDALIACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for CERATOTHECA triloba E. Meyer ex Bernh. [family PEDALIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 454, (1904) Author: By O. STAPF.
Names
CERATOTHECA triloba E. Meyer ex Bernh. [family PEDALIACEAE], in Linnæa, xvi. 29;—Bot. Mag. t. 6974.
CERATOTHECA lamiifolia Engl. [family PEDALIACEAE], Jahrb. xix. 156.
Sporledera triloba Bernh. [family ], l.c. 42; DC. Prodr. ix. 252; Gard. Chron. 1887, ii. 492, fig. 99.
Sporledera krausseana Bernh. [family ], l.c.; DC. l.c. 253.
Sesamum lamiifolium Engl. [family PEDALIACEAE], Jahrb. x. 256.
Information
stems erect, up to 6 ft. high, simple or branched, obtusely quadrangular, pubescent to villous; leaves polymorphic, lower long petioled, from broadly ovate-cordate or almost rounded to broadly triangular and 3-lobed with the lateral lobes spreading, 1 1/2–6 in. long and broad, coarsely crenate, more or less pubescent to subvillous, particularly below, upper leaves narrower, shortly petioled, passing into the ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, sparingly crenate or entire bracts; lower petioles 2–5 in. long; flowers opposite in a long loose raceme up to 1 ft. long; pedicels very short; calyx 3–6 lin. long, densely hairy; segments lanceolate; corolla lilac with purple streaks in the throat and on the lowest lobe, 2–3 in. long; lowest lobe ovate, 2–3 lin. long; capsule 8–11 lin. long, 2 1/2 lin. broad, loosely pubescent to subvillous; horns about 2 1/2 lin. long, much compressed at the broad base; seeds slightly over 1 lin. long, margins smooth, faces wrinkled. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa.
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Pondoland; between Umtata River and St. Johns River, Drège! Natal; near the Umlaas River, Krauss, 179! near Durban, Wood, 250! and in MacOwan & Bolus, Herb. Norm., 1018! Plant, 4! 14! Inanda, Wood, 140! between Durban and Attercliffe, Sanderson, 328! Klip River, Gerrard, 722! and without precise locality, Cooper, 1187! 1248!KALAHARI REGION Bechuanaland; between Mafeking and Ramoutsa, Lugard! Chue Vley, Burchell, 2389! Transvaal; near Lydenburg, Wilms, 1071! Atherstone! near Barberton, Galpin, 798! Wonderboom Poort, near Pretoria, Rehmann, 4521!

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