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Didymodoxa debilis

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Identification
Isotype of Didymodoxa debilis Wedd. [family URTICACEAE ] Australina paarlensis N.E.Br. [family URTICACEAE ] Didymodoxa capensis (Wedd.) Friis&Wilmot-Dear [family URTICACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Parietaria lanceolata
  • Didymodoxa integrifolia
  • Didymodoxa debilis
  • Girardinia lanccolah
  • Australina unrecorded
  • Australina paarlensis
  • Australina thunbergii
  • Australina capensis
  • Didymotoca debilis
  • Didymodoxa capensis

Flora

Entry for AUSTRALINA capensis Wedd. [family URTICACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, Part 2, page 541, (1925) Author: (By N. E. BROWN.)
Names
AUSTRALINA capensis Wedd. [family URTICACEAE], in Ann. Sc. Nat. 4 me sér. i. 212
AUSTRALINA integrifolia Wedd. [family URTICACEAE], in Ann. Sc. Nat. 4 me sér. i. 212.
Didymotoxa debilis E. Meyer [family ], in Drège Zwei Pfl. Documente, 90 and 113.
Didymotoca debilis E. Meyer [family ], l.c. 178, letters a and b only.
Didymodoxa debilis Wedd. [family URTICACEAE], Monogr. Urtic. 548, t. 20, B, and in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 235 61.
Didymodoxa integrifolia Wedd. [family URTICACEAE], Monogr. Urtic. 549, and in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 235 61.
Urtica capensis [family URTICACEAE], as to one of the sheets marked “a” in Herb. Thunb., not as to Linn. f., nor of Thunb. Fl. Cap.; see N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1913, 80.
Parietaria lanceolata E. Meyer [family URTICACEAE], a, in Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 109, not of Thunb.
Information
an annual herb 4–10 in. high, much branched at the base, with weak slender flaccid thinly pubescent or subglabrous stems and branches 1/5– 2/3 lin. thick, drying green; leaves alternate; petioles 1–12 lin. long; blades 2 1/2–9 lin. long, 2–9 lin. broad, ovate or subtriangular-ovate, obtuse or rarely acute, very broadly cuneate at the base, entire or with 3–5 faint or distinct crenations or teeth on each side, glabrous or with a few hairs on both surfaces; stipules 3/4–1 lin. long, broadly ovate, acute, membranous; flowers in small axillary clusters, several male surrounding 1–2 female; perianth of the male flowers, 1 lin. long, shortly tubular below, open above and obtusely angular on each side of the very obtuse mucronate apex, pubescent; female flower compressed-ovoid, 1/2 lin. long, pubescent; stigma 1/4 lin. long, filiform, curved; achene 2/3 lin. long, ovoid, subacuminate, keeled on one side, dark brown. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Clanwilliam Div.; Lange Vallei, Drège! Malmesbury Div.; between Groene Kloof and Saldanha Bay, Drège!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg!WESTERN REGION Little Namaqualand; between Koper Berg and Kookfontein, Drège, 8247!

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