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Diplostylis angustifolia

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Name

Identification
Adenocline sessilifolia Turcz. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by D.P., Diplostylis angustifolia Sond. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ]
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  • Diplostylis angustifolia
  • Adenocline sessilifolia

Flora

Entry for ADENOCLINE sessilifolia Turcz. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, Part 2, page 216, (1925) Author: (By N. E. BROWN, J. HUTCHINSON and D. PRAIN.)
Names
ADENOCLINE sessilifolia Turcz. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. xvi. 61, partly, and excl. Drège, 1867;—Turcz. in Flora, 1844, 121, partly, and in Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. xxv. ii. 180; Prain in Ann. Bot. xxvii. 408.
ADENOCLINE sessiliflora Baill. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Étud. Gén. Euphorb. 457, t. 9, fig. 6.
ADENOCLINE pauciflora Müll. Arg. var. η sessilifolia [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1140.
ADENOCLINE pauciflora Pax [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. v. 49, fig. 30 E;not of Turcz.
Diplostylis angustifolia Sond. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Linnæa, xxiii. 113.
Mercurialis bupleuroides Baill. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Adansonia, iii. 159, partly; not of Meisn.
Information
a diœcious herb with numerous rather wiry erect virgately branching stems 1–1 1/2 ft. high, apparently springing from a woody base, internodes 1 1/2–2 in. long; leaves alternate, below distinctly petioled, above sessile, firmly membranous, the basal narrow-lanceolate, acute, base rounded, the upper linear-lanceolate, acute, base relatively wide confluent with the linear stipules, margin entire, involute, 1/4– 1/3 in. long, 1 lin. or less wide, glabrous on both surfaces; stipules laciniate at the base on the side away from the leaf; male flowers in axils of uppermost leaves, several to an axil; female flowers leaf-opposed, solitary, their pedicels abruptly reflexed; calyx-segments in both sexes 5; stamens usually 10; ovary glabrous; capsule 1 1/2 lin. wide, 3-dymous, smooth; seeds ovoid-globose, greyish. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Clanwilliam Div.; Brakfontein, near the Olifants River, Ecklon & Zeyher, 40! near Wupperthal, 1900 ft., Bolus, 9090! Malmesbury Div.; between Mamre and Saldanha Bay, Drège, 1868, mainly! Cape Div.; Riet Valley, Laudenbach, Ecklon & Zeyher, 39, partly! Uniondale Div.; Kamanassie Mountains, near Avontuur, Bolus, 2460!

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