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Droguetia ambigua

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Isolectotype of Droguetia ambigua Wedd. [family URTICACEAE]
Filed as Droguetia ambigua Wedd. [family URTICACEAE]
Filed as Droguetia ambigua Wedd. [family URTICACEAE]
Filed as Droguetia ambigua Wedd. [family URTICACEAE]
Isolectotype of Droguetia ambigua Wedd. [family URTICACEAE]
Filed as Droguetia ambigua Wedd. [family URTICACEAE]
Lectotype of Droguetia ambigua Wedd. [family URTICACEAE]
Droguetia ambigua Wedd. [family URTICACEAE]
Isolectotype of Droguetia ambigua Wedd. [family URTICACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Droguetia ambigua Wedd. [family URTICACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by NU,
Related name
  • Droguetia ambigua
  • Parietaria cuneata
  • Parietaria urticaefolia
  • Droguetia urticoides

Flora

Entry for DROGUETIA ambigua 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
DROGUETIA ambigua Wedd. [family URTICACEAE], in Ann. Sc. Nat. 4 me sér. i. 211;—Wedd. Monogr. Urtic. 543, partly, excl. synonyms not quoted here and Drège's plant.
DROGUETIA cuneata Buek [family URTICACEAE], in DC. Prodr. Index, xiv.-xvii. 122.
Parietaria cuneata Eckl. & Zeyh. ex Krauss [family URTICACEAE], in Flora, 1845, 88, and Beitr. Fl. Capund Natal. 151.
Parietaria capensis Drège [family URTICACEAE], in Linnæa, xx. 214, not of Thunberg.
Information
a herb apparently 1 1/2 ft. or more high; stems obtusely 4-angled, grooved down each face, thinly and minutely adpressed-puberulous, smooth, reddish when dried; leaves opposite, or occasionally alternate on the branches; petioles 2–10 lin. long; blades of those on the main stems 1 1/4–2 1/4 in. long, 1/2–1 1/4 in. broad, of those on the branches smaller, ovate, acuminate, broadly cuneate at the base, and with 5–12 obtuse teeth or crenations on each margin, with the terminal tooth twice or more than twice as long as broad, thinly pubescent and green above, glabrous or with very few hairs and dull purplish beneath; stipules 1 1/2–2 lin. long, ovate, subulate-acuminate, spreading, membranous, ciliate, whitish-brown or perhaps pinkish when alive; involucres and flowers in arrangement and structure very like those of D. urticæfolia, but the bisexual involucres are larger and up to 2 1/2 lin. in diam.; achenes not seen. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Knysna Div.; Blauwkrantz Pass, Zitzikama, 500 ft., Galpin, 4580! Humansdorp Div.; between Kromme River and Uitenhage, Zeyher, 3866!SOUTH AFRICA without locality or name of collector, a specimen named by Weddell in Herb. Kew!

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