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Cyanotis nodiflora

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Identification
Cyanotis nodiflora Kunth [family COMMELINACEAE ]
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  • Cyanotis nodiflora

Flora

Entry for CYANOTIS nodiflora Kunth [family COMMELINACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 7, page 7, (1900) Author: (By C. B. CLARKE.)
Names
CYANOTIS nodiflora Kunth [family COMMELINACEAE], Enum. iv. 106;—Bot. Mag. t. 5471.
CYANOTIS speciosa Hassk. [family COMMELINACEAE], Commel. Ind. 108.
Tradescantia nodiflora Lam. [family COMMELINACEAE], Encyc. ii. 371.
Tradescantia speciosa Linn. f. [family COMMELINACEAE], Suppl. 192.
Tradescantia formosa Willd. [family COMMELINACEAE], Sp. Pl. ii. 20.
Commelina speciosa Thunb. [family COMMELINACEAE], Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 294.
Information
nearly glabrous except the innovations, or villous, or shaggy; stems 6–48 in. long, diffuse, often branching from the root, where a sterile short stem is added; roots fibrous, sometimes bearing ovate-oblong tubers; leaves 2–5 in. long, oblong-linear, or those on the sterile short stem much larger, up to 9 by 1 in.; flower clusters dense, compound, of abbreviated scorpioid cymes interspersed with falcate folded bracts; flowers 1/3 in. long; tube short; style linear, thickened just beneath the stigma; capsule 3/4 lin. long; seeds 6, wrinkled. null
Range
Also in South Trop. Africa, and Madagascar.
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Karoo, Bowie! Somerset, Bowker!COAST REGION Riversdale Div.; Vet River, Gill! Knysna Div.; near Keurbooms River, Burchell, 5180! Uitenhage Div.; between Uitenhage and Drostdy Farm, Burchell, 4460! and without precise locality, Zeyher! Ecklon and Zeyher, 610! Bathurst Div.; near Port Alfred, Burchell, 4008! Albany Div.; Woest Hill, near Grahamstown, 2500 ft., Galpin, 360! British Kaffraria, Cooper, 121! 388!EASTERN REGION Tembuland; Bazeia, 2500 ft., Baur, 389! Griqualand East; near Kokstad, 5000 ft., Tyson, 1894! MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust. Afr., 533! Natal; Inanda, Wood, 17! 51! 963! Port Natal, Grant! and without precise locality, Sutherland!KALAHARI REGION Basutoland, Cooper, 3326! Bechuanaland; near Sirorume River, 3500 ft., Holub! Transvaal; near Barberton, 2000–5000 ft., Galpin, 547! 830! Pretoria, Rehmann, 4467! Greenstock! Orange Free State, Molyneux!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Drège, 8781 a, b, c!
Notes
This species is sometimes covered nearly all over with white, almost silvery, soft hairs; sometimes the leaves and flower clusters are covered with much tawny or brown hair; sometimes (especially in the large forms) the plant is glabrous except a little hair on the inflorescence and about the mouth of the leaf-sheaths. The variability in size of the plant and leaves is also great; and being common in South Africa, collectors have preserved much of it supposing they had got several species. Several closely allied species occur in Trop. Africa, and in India; and in many of these the variability in size and in hairiness is great.

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