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Chironia humilis

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Name

Identification
Chironia humilis Gilg [family GENTIANACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for CHIRONIA humilis Gilg [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
CHIRONIA humilis Gilg [family GENTIANACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 105;—Schoch in Bot. Centralbl. Beih. xiv. 230.
Information
stems slightly angled, simple, leafy, 4–8 in. long; leaves rather small, radical subrosulate, lanceolate, acute, 1/2 in. long, 1 lin. wide; cauline in 3–6 remote pairs, linear, acute, 3/4 in. long, 1/2 lin. wide; flowers 3–9 in terminal cymes with spreading branches 1/2–1 in. long, and peduncles very short; calyx 5 lin. long, divided four-fifths; lobes lanceolate, acuminate; corolla-tube narrow-campanulate, green, shorter than the calyx; lobes dark-purple, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate or acute, 6 lin. long, 2 1/2–4 lin. wide; anthers distinctly spiral; ovary oblong, acute, 3 lin. long. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa.
Distribution
KALAHARI REGION Bechuanaland; neighbourhood of Takoon, Lemue! Orange River Colony; Leeuw Spruit or Vredefort, Barrett-Hamilton! Transvaal: Magaliesberg Range and Aapies River, Burke, 124! Zeyher, 1193! Crocodile River, Zeyher, 1195! near Mooifontein, 5500 ft., Schlechter, 3552! Johannesburg, Mrs. de Jongh in Herb. Galpin, 1475! Var. β: Transvaal; near Pretoria, 4000 ft., McLea in Herb. Bolus, 3100! Rehmann, 4679! Fehr! between Pretoria and Johannesburg, Scott Elliot, 1356! near Johannesburg, Ommanney, 29! Rand! Witwaters Rand, Mrs. Hutton, 926! Pilgrims Rest, Greenstock! Heidelberg, Miss Leendertz 1028! near Modderfontein, Conrath, 737! near Wilge River, 4600 ft., Schlechter, 4122! Rustenburg, 4500 ft., Miss Nation! sources of Limpopo River, Nelson, 262! Nylstroom, Nelson, 283! between Porter and Trigardsfontein, Rehmann, 6613! near Lydenburg, Atherstone! Bronkhorst Spruit, Wilms, 973! Nelspruit, Rogers, 290! Gold-fields, Baines! Ermelo, Burtt Davy, 2192! Houtbosch (Woodbush), Rehmann, 5828! 5829! 5928! Bolus, 11114!
Notes
The variety here recognised is considered a distinct species by Gilg and Schoch. It differs so little from true C. humilis, Gilg, that Baker and Brown are perhaps justified in declining to treat it even as a variety.

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