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Identification
Diosma depressa Eckl. & Zeyh. [family RUTACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Diosma aspalathoides Lam. [family RUTACEAE ] Verified by Nordlindh, T., 1939 Diosma aspalathoides Lam. [family RUTACEAE ] Verified by Williams, I.J.M., 1975
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  • Diosma depressa
  • Diosma aspalathoides

Flora

Entry for DIOSMA aspalathoides Lam. [family RUTACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 369, (1894) Author: (By W. SONDER.)
Names
DIOSMA aspalathoides Lam. [family RUTACEAE], ! l. c. p. 286;—R. & Sch. l. c. p. 455.
DIOSMA ericoides Lam. [family RUTACEAE], ! l. c. p. 285.
DIOSMA glabrata Meyer [family RUTACEAE], B. & W. l. c. p. 34. E. & Z.! 850. E. Mey.! Hb. Drege.
DIOSMA ambigua E. & Z. [family RUTACEAE], ! 844.
DIOSMA acmæophylla E. & Z. [family RUTACEAE], ! 849.
DIOSMA depressa E. & Z. [family RUTACEAE], ! 851.
Information
branchlets minutely downy; leaves alternate, erect, sub-appressed, linear or oblong-linear, carinato-trigonous, glabrous, with a recurved mucro, serrulato-scabrous at the margin; flowers sub-corymbose, the peduncles and calyx quite glabrous; petals obtuse. Six inches to 1 foot high, rigid. Leaves 3–4 lines, in β. 4–6 lines long, the mucro evident in the upper, often deficient in the lower leaves. Flowers mostly larger than in D. vulgaris. Petals white. Capsule glabrous; the carpels sub-compressed, gland-dotted on the back, transversely striate at the sides, 4 lines long, tipped with patent, obtuse horns. Known from the last by its dwarfer habit, shorter and erect leaves with a recurved point, and calyx not ciliate at edge. Perhaps a mere variety?
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Cape Flats, and many places in the Western Districts. β. near Tulbagh. (Herb. Lam., Wendl., Lehm., T.C.D., Sond.)

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