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Diascia tanyceras

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Identification
Diascia tanyceras E.Mey. ex Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for DIASCIA thunbergiana Spreng. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 121, (1904) Author: By W. P. HIERN, F.R.S.
Names
DIASCIA thunbergiana Spreng. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Syst. Veg. ii. 800;—Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 17, and in DC. Prodr. x. 258; Drège, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 76.
DIASCIA tanyceras E. Meyer ex Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 17; Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 258.
Antirrhinum longicorne Thunb. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Prodr. 105; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 483.
Nemesia longicorne Pers. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Syn. ii. 159.
Nemesia longicornia Vent. ex Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in DC. Prodr. x. 264.
Information
an annual herb, glabrous, erect or ascending, 3–15 in. high; stem simple or branched from the base, rather slender; branches elongated, diffuse, ascending or erect; leaves opposite or 3-verticillate or alternate, oblanceolate or obovate, obtuse or rounded at the apex, wedge-shaped at the base, pinnatifid or toothed or entire, erect or ascending, 1/2–2 in. long, 1/8– 3/4 in. broad, membranous, glossy, the lower tapering towards the base; lower petioles as long as or shorter than the leaves, the upper short or obsolete; peduncles 1 1/2–4 in. long, slender in the upper axils, together forming terminal somewhat leafy racemes; calyx-segments lanceolate-acuminate from a broad base, minutely ciliate, some or all reflexed in the flower, 1/10– 1/5 in. long; corolla 1/2– 5/6 in. broad, deep purple inside, red on the margin, with four yellow spots in front; lower lip ovate-rounded, bifid, with two callosities inside and a single intruded pit outside; upper lip with two spurs at the base; spurs subulate, directed towards the front, 1/2–1 in. long; filaments 4, subulate, simple, purple, erect, not dilated at the base, 1/12– 1/8 in. long; anthers yellow, cohering, small; capsule narrowly conical-oblong, glabrous, 1/3– 1/2 in. long. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Calvinia Div.; on hills of Oorlogs Kloof, 2400 ft., Schlechter, 10937! 10992!COAST REGION Clanwilliam Div.; Wupperthal, Wurmb. in Herb. Drège, 3152 b! near Clanwilliam, 350 ft., Bolus, 9066! Schlechter, 8590! Bull Hoek, 500 ft., Schlechter, 8374! on hills at Lamm Kraal, 1000 ft., Schlechter, 10846! on hills near Doorn River, 600 ft., Schlechter, 10870! Bosch Kloof, 600 ft., Schlechter, 8457! Oliphants River and Brak Fontein, Zeyher! Piquetberg Div.; Piquetberg, in gravelly places, Masson! Thunberg! in sandy places, near Porterville, 800 ft., Schlechter, 4904! Malmesbury Div.; in sandy places near Groene Kloof (Mamre), 300 ft., Bolus, 4316! hills near Mosselbanks River, Thunberg! Riebecks Castle, Thunberg!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Patterson! Thom!WESTERN REGION Little Namaqualand; among rocks near Klip Fontein, 3000 ft., Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 646! Modder Fontein, 1500–2000 ft. Drège, 3152 a! and without precise locality, Scully, 24!
Notes
The following specimens are doubtfully placed under this species:—[OR1]  CENTRAL REGION: Ceres Div.; at Ongeluks River (see “ Hemimeris montana? ,” Burchell, Trav. S. Afr. i. 222 ), Burchell, 1224/2! at Yuk River Hoogte (one of the two species of Hemimeris mentioned by Burchell, l.c. i. 225 ), Burchell, 1274!

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