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Diosma calycina

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Type? of Diosma calycina Steud. [family RUTACEAE]

Geleznowia calycina Benth. [family RUTACEAE]

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Diosma calycina Steud. [family RUTACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on Sheet, Isotype of Coleonema gracile (Schltr.) Eckl. & Zeyh. [family RUTACEAE ] Verified by Williams, I., 1975 Coleonema pulchrum Hook. [family RUTACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet,

Flora

Entry for COLEONEMA pulchrum Hook. [family RUTACEAE]

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)

Reference Sources

Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 369, (1894) Author: (By W. SONDER.)

COLEONEMA pulchrum Hook. [family RUTACEAE], Bot. Mag. t. 3340;—E. & Z.! 836.

COLEONEMA album Schl. β. virgatum [family RUTACEAE], Lin. 6. p. 199.

COLEONEMA album Schl. γ. gracile [family RUTACEAE], Lin. 6. p. 199.

COLEONEMA virgatum E. & Z. [family RUTACEAE], ! 832.

COLEONEMA gracile E. & Z. [family RUTACEAE], ! 833.

Diosma calycina Steud. [family RUTACEAE]

Diosma oppositifolia E. Mey. [family RUTACEAE], ! Hb. Drege.

Diosma tenuifolia Presl [family RUTACEAE], Col.

COLEONEMA Dregeanum Presl [family RUTACEAE], l. c. Drege, 2251, 7143.

much-branched, branches virgate, very thinly pubescent; leaves erecto-patent, patent, or recurved, linear or linear-subulate, with a straight pungent mucro, flattish above, convexo-carinate beneath, the diaphanous margin serrulate; bracts and calyx-lobes acuminate, ciliate; petals spathulate, apiculate, or subacuminate. Leaves in some specimens 1/2 inch, in others 1 1/2 inch long, 1/2 line wide. Bracts mostly as long as the calyx, subulate, narrowed. Petals clawed, the claw equalling the stamens. Capsule twice as long as the calyx, the carpels rough-cast at back, horns short, straight, obtuse.—Mostly taller than C. album, with leaves often longer and narrower, flowers mostly larger, more numerous, racemose, and beautifully red, (drying whitish).

SOUTH AFRICA Hills near Bethelsdorp, and in the flats, under the Vanstaadensberg; at Cape Recief, Algoa Bay; and in Swellendam District, E. & Z.! Drege! Zey.! 2151. Jul.-Nov. (Herb. Holm. (Sparmann), Lehm., Sond., T.C.D.)