Entry for DICHILUS strictus E. Mey. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
DICHILUS strictusE. Mey. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], ! Comm. p. 36;—Benth.! l. c. p. 353.
Information
erect, virgate, all the leaves alternate; leaflets linear-oblong; racemules 2–3 flowered, terminating short ramuli, sub-paniculate; calyx scarcely cleft to the middle, half as long as the alæ, the teeth short, ovate. A slender, fruticose, many-stemmed plant; stems 12–15 inches high, simple, ramulose toward the top, appressedly pubescent. Leaflets minutely and appressedly puberulent, 4–5 lines long, 1–2 lines wide, sub-acute, tapering at base. Stipules none. Racemules on sub-uncial ramuli, crowded round the ends of the branches. Flowers yellow. Carina prominent and very blunt.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA On the Witbergen, Drege! (Herb. Bth., D.)
