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Dischisma ciliatum

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Identification
Hebenstretia ciliata P.J.Bergius [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] Dischisma ciliatum (P.J.Bergius) Choisy [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Dischisma ciliatum
  • Selago unrecorded
  • Hebenstretia dentata
  • Polycenia lanceolata
  • Dischisma leptostachyum
  • Hebenstretia ciliata

Flora

Entry for DISCHISMA ciliatum Choisy [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 95, (1912) Author: By R. A. ROLFE.
Names
DISCHISMA ciliatum Choisy [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Mém. Soc. Phys. Genèv. ii. ii. 94, excl. var. β;—Choisy, Mém. Selag. 24, excl. var. β; E. Meyer, Comm. 250, and in Drège, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 78, 85, 106, 115, 120, 179; Walp. Rep. iv. 148; Choisy in DC. Prod. xii. 6; Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 346, 356.
Hebenstreitia ciliata Berg. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Pl. Cap. 154; Linn. Mant. 420; Thunb. Prodr. 103, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 477; Willd. Sp. Pl. iii. 331; Jarosz, Pl. Nov. Cap. 14; Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii. 754.
Hebenstreitia hispida Lam. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Encycl. iii. 78.
Hebenstreitia albiflora Jarosz [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Pl. Nov. Cap. 13; Link, Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. ii. 124.
Hebenstreitia alba Jacq. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Eclog. ii. t. 151.
Dischisma hispidum Sweet [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Hort. Brit. ed. 2, 415; Choisy in DC. Prod. xii. 7.
Information
a much-branched straggling shrub, 1–2 ft. or more high; branches pubescent; leaves subsessile, linear, acute, with 1–3 pairs of teeth near the apex or subentire, glabrous, 1/4–1 in. long, often more or less fascicled; spikes usually dense, 1–6 in. long; bracts 3–5 lin. long; ovate and ciliate at the base, very acuminate and glabrous above; calyx-lobes linear, concave, keeled, membranous and ciliate at the margin, 1 1/4 lin. long; corolla white, 4–6 lin. long; tube slender; lobes oblong, subequal, 1 lin. long; fruit oblong, 1–1 1/2 lin. long. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Malmesbury Div.; Darling, Bachmann, 429! Zwartland, Zeyher, 3585! Cape Div.; Wynberg, 200–600 ft., Drège! in shady places on the Cape Downs, Bowie! Simons Bay, MacGillivray, 626! Camps Bay, Burchell, 303! hill at Muizenberg, Wallich! foot of Table Mountain, Pappe! Ecklon, 739! Wallich! Table Mountain, above Camps Bay, 800 ft., Galpin, 4399! near Cape Town, Harvey, 514! in stony grassy places on Lion Mountain, near Cape Town, 800 ft., MacOwan & Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust. Afr., 934! Devils Peak, Wilms, 3522! Wolley Dod, 639! Flats near Rondebosch, Zeyher, 3584! Wolley Dod, 640! Flats near Doornhoogde, Wolley Dod, 638! Paarl Div.; Paarl, Elliott! rivers on Paarl Berg, Drège. Tulbagh Div.; at Steendal, Pappe! near Tulbagh Waterfall, 1000–2000 ft., Ecklon & Zeyher! mountains near New Kloof, 1000 ft., Drège; Mitchells Pass, 1300 ft., Schlechter, 8943! Caledon Div.; mountains near Genadendal, 1000–1500 ft., Drège! Zonder Einde River, 600 ft., Drège! at Caledons Institution, Bowie! Riversdale Div.; Riversdale, Rust, 446! Mossel Bay Div.; in a dry channel of an arm of the Gauritz River, Burchell, 6501! on the road between Hartenbosch and Mossel Bay, Burchell, 6225! Knysna Div,; on the sands at Plettenberg Bay, Bowie! Port Elizabeth Div.; at Port Elizabeth, Hewitson, 140!SOUTH AFRICA without precise locality, Alexander! Miss Cole! Forster! Mund! Nelson! Oldenburg! Sieber, 147! Thom! Wallich! Wright, 509, 515! Zeyher, 3586! and cultivated specimens!WESTERN REGION Var. β: Little Namaqualand; between Silver Fontein and Kousies (Buffels) River, 1000–2000 ft., Drège.
Notes
The variety crassifolium is only known to me from the description.

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