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Chironia maritima

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Name

Identification
Chironia maritima Eckl. [family GENTIANACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, null Verified by Data not digitized,
Related name
  • Gentiana diffusa
  • Chironia maritima
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  • Gentiana centaurium
  • Chironia laxa

Flora

Entry for CHIRONIA laxa 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 laxa Gilg [family GENTIANACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 105
CHIRONIA melampyrifolia E. Meyer [family GENTIANACEAE], Comm. 177; Schoch in Bot. Centralbl. Beih. xiv. 208; not of Lam.
CHIRONIA maritima Griseb. [family GENTIANACEAE], in DC. Prodr. ix. 39 (as to syn. E. Meyer only); not of Eckl.
CHIRONIA Schlechteri Schoch [family GENTIANACEAE], in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2 me sér. ii. 1010 and in Bot. Centralbl. Beih. xiv. 214.
Information
stems slightly angled, leafy, much-branched, 1–1 1/2 ft. long; branches ascending or spreading; leaves lanceolate, acuminate, 3/4–1 in. long, 1–1 1/2 lin. wide; flowers 2–3, or solitary, terminal; peduncles 1/2–1 1/4 in. long; calyx 3 lin. long, divided three-fourths; lobes linear-subulate; corolla-tube narrow-cylindric, longer than the calyx; limb narrowed; lobes ovate-lanceolate, subacuminate, 5–6 lin. long, 2–2 1/2 lin. wide; anthers straight; ovary narrow-oblong, acute, 3 lin. long. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Komgha Div.; near Komgha, Flanagan, 12!EASTERN REGION Transkei; near the Bashee River, 2800 ft., Schlechter, 6282! near Butterworth, 2000 ft., Bolus, 10228! Tembuland; banks of the Umtata River, 400 ft., Drège, 4924! Griqualand East; Shawbury, 2000 ft., Baur, 229!
Notes
Nearly allied to C. serpyllifolia, Lehm., and only distinguished by its longer leaves and larger size. The two are related to each other much as C. rosacea, Gilg, and C. transvaalensis, Gilg, are related, and it may be found, as the result of further field study, that they can only be distinguished as varieties. There is no character by which to separate C. Schlechteri, Schoch, based on Schlechter 6282, from C. laxa proper, based on Baur 229.

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