Entry for CLIFFORTIA ruscifolia Linn. [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 ruscifoliaLinn. [family ROSACEAE], Sp. 1469;—Thunb. Cap. p. 435. DC. l. c. E. & Z.! 1720. Drege, 6832.
Information
young parts villous, becoming glabrous; leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 5–7 nerved, rigid, sessile, pungent-mucronate, concave, scaberulous at the margin, entire or sharply tridentate; stipules amplexicaul, shortly subulate or abortive. A very densely leafy, much branched bush, with more or less persistent pubescence, occasionally quite hoary, and sometimes perfectly glabrous. Leaves very closely set or fascicled, 1/2 inch long, 2–4 lines wide, generally much acuminate, very sharp.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Western districts, very common. (Herb. D., Sd., Bth., Hk., &c.)
