Entry for CLIFFORTIA pulchella Linn. f. [family ROSACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 285, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
CLIFFORTIA pulchellaLinn. f. [family ROSACEAE], Suppl. 430;—Thunb. Cap. p. 437. DC. l. c.
Information
leafl. in pairs, close-pressed together, flat, imbricating, orbicular, prominently and flabellately many-nerved, minutely scaberulous at the margin. A small, much branched shrub, 2 feet high, nearly allied to C. crenata, but with smaller, more strongly and closely nerved, and entire (though rough) edged leaflets. Leaflets 3–4 lines long, 4–5 lines wide, drying fulvous, veined like the frondlets of an Adiantum.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Hartequaskloof, near Safrankraal, Thunberg! S. Africa, Burman! Forsyth! (Herb. Bth., Sd.)
Notes
The most elegant of the genus and one of the rarest.
