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Cyathula globulifera

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Identification
Pupalia huillensis Hiern [family AMARANTHACEAE ] Cyathula globulifera Moq. [family AMARANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Cyathula cylindrica Moq. [family AMARANTHACEAE ] Verified by Townsend,C.C.,
Related name
  • Achyranthus unrecorded
  • Cyathula uncinulatula
  • Cyathula unrecorded
  • Cyathula lapulacea
  • Pupalia globosa
  • Cyathula globulifera
  • Cyathula cylindrica
  • Pupalia huillensis
  • Cyathula uncinulata
  • Cyathula polycephala
  • Alternanthera lappulacea
  • Achyranthes globulifera
  • Cyathula sphaerocephala
  • Pupalia holoserica

Flora

Entry for CYATHULA globulifera Moquin [family AMARANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 402, (1912) Author: By T. COOKE and C. H. WRIGHT.
Names
CYATHULA globulifera Moquin [family AMARANTHACEAE], in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 329;—Schinz in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 1A, 107, fig. 61, B; Baker & C. B. Cl. in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 44.
Pupalia holosericea Fenzl [family AMARANTHACEAE], in Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 51, 56, 152, 158, 214; Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 329.
Alternanthera lappulacea Schlechtend. ex Moquin [family AMARANTHACEAE], l.c.
Desmochæta uncinulata Hiern [family ], in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 890.
Information
suffruticose, erect; stem reaching 3 ft. long and as well as the branches obtusely quadrangular, hairy; leaves petiolate, ovate, acute or subobtuse, 1 1/2–3 in. long, 3/4–2 in. broad, hairy on both sides, rounded or cuneate at the base; nerves not prominent; petioles 1/4–1 in. long, hairy; inflorescence in dense globose heads, 3/4–1 1/4 in. long, nearly as broad as long; partial inflorescences usually of 1 narrow fertile flower with sterile flowers around it, the sepals of the sterile flowers ending in long hooked spines; bracteoles 2 1/4 lin. long, ovate, aristate, sometimes shortly hooked; perianth 2 1/2 lin. long; 2 outer segments lanceolate, aristate, shortly hooked, 2 1/2 lin. long; 3 inner segments 2 lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, apiculate, all pubescent or woolly; filaments 1/2 lin. long; anthers 1/4 lin. long, ovoid; staminodes much shorter than the filaments, oblong, laciniate, glabrous; ovary obovoid; style 3/4 lin. long, slender; seed rather more than 1/2 lin. long, light brown. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Graaff Reinet Div.; at Milk River, Burchell, 2594/2! Oude Berg, near Graaff Reinet, 3800 ft., Drège, Bolus, 302! Aliwal North Div.; rocky hills near the Orange River, Burke! Kraai River, 4500 ft., Drège.COAST REGION Albany Div.: near Grahamstown, Cooper, 3053! Queenstown Div.; in scrub, Lesseyton Drift, Galpin, 2591! Shiloh, Baur, 793!EASTERN REGION Pondoland; between St. Johns River and Umsikaba River, 1000–2000 ft., Drège. Griqualand East; mountains near Matatiele, 5000 ft., Tyson, 1619! Natal; Inanda, 1800 ft., Wood, 14! Umlazi River Heights, under 500 ft., Drège, and without precise locality, Cooper, 1079! Gerrard, 1572!KALAHARI REGION Orange River Colony; Bloemfontein, Rehmann, 3833! Transvaal; near Lydenburg, Wilms, 1261! near Pretoria, Miss Leendertz, 41! Rehmann, 4547!

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