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Chironia fruticosa

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Identification
Chironia fruticosa L. [family GENTIANACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by P.J. Bergius, Orphium frutescens E.Mey. [family GENTIANACEAE ] Verified by J.E. Wikström,
Related name
  • Orphium frutescens
  • Chironia fruticosa

Flora

Entry for ORPHIUM frutescens E. Meyer [family GENTIANACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 1056, (1909) Author: By A. W. HILLand D. PRAIN.
Names
ORPHIUM frutescens E. Meyer [family GENTIANACEAE], Comm. 181, as to citation;—Griseb. in DC. Prodr. ix. 43.
ORPHIUM frutescens E. Meyer var. decussata [family GENTIANACEAE], Comm. 181.
Chironia frutescens Linn. [family GENTIANACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. 1, 190; ed. 2, 273; Berg. Descr. Pl. Cap. 45; Lam. Ill. t. 108, fig. 1; Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 37; Thunb.Prodr. 35, Flor. Cap. ii. 110, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. vii. 250; Pers. Syn. Pl. i. 282; Burch. Trav. i. 37; Griseb. Gen. et Sp. Gent. 96.
Chironia decussata Vent. [family GENTIANACEAE], Jard. Cels, t. 31; Pers. Syn. Pl. i. 282; Donn, Hort. Cantab. ed. 6, 57; Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 707; Reichb. Ic. Bot. Exot. 16, t. 244.
Chironia grandiflora Salisb. [family GENTIANACEAE], Prodr. 137.
Chironia latifolia Donn [family GENTIANACEAE], Hort. Cantab. ed. 2, 25.
Chironia frutescens Cham. & Schlecht. var. hirsuta [family GENTIANACEAE], in Linnæa, i. 190, mainly.
Chironia orthostylis Reichb. [family GENTIANACEAE], Ic. Bot. Exot. 16, t. 245.
Chironia fruticosa O. Kuntze [family GENTIANACEAE], Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 432.
Chironia dianthiflora Hort. ex Garden [family GENTIANACEAE], 1893, 213.
Roslinia frutescens G. Don [family ], Gen. Syst. Gard. iv. 203.
Information
shrubby; stems 1/2–3 ft. long, much-branched; branches virgate, leafy; leaves opposite, decussate, flat, oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate or sublinear, obtuse or subacute, usually villous-pubescent on both sides, 1–1 1/2 or rarely 2 in. long, 2–5 lin. wide; flowers usually in 3-flowered, sometimes 5-flowered cymes, or solitary; peduncles pubescent, 1/3– 1/2 in. long; calyx pubescent outside, 6 lin. long, divided half-way; lobes obtuse or rarely subacute; corolla rose-pink; tube as long as calyx, narrow fusiform; lobes obovate-obtuse, 10 lin. long, 5–6 lin. wide; anthers twisted; ovary 3 lin. long, acute; capsule 4 lin. long, 2 1/2 lin. wide. null

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