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Dyschoriste depressa

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Identification
Dyschoriste keniensis Malombe, Mwachala & Vollesen [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by G. Mwachala, 2007 Isotype of Dyschoriste depressa Nees [family ACANTHACEAE ] Verified by G. Mwachala, 2007
Related name
  • Calophanes nagchana
  • Dyschoriste depressa
  • Asystasia schimperi
  • Calophanes crenata
  • Calophanes natalensis
  • Dyschoriste nagchana
  • Linostylus orata
  • Dyschoriste keniensis
  • Dyschoriste bayensis

Flora

Entry for DYSCHORISTE depressa Nees [family ACANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 1, (1912) Author: By C. B. CLARKE.
Names
DYSCHORISTE depressa Nees [family ACANTHACEAE], in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 81;—Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 106; C. B. Clarke in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. v. 72.
Ruellia depressa Linn. [family ACANTHACEAE], Syst. Veget. ed. Murr. 576; Thunb. Prodr. 104, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 479.
Calophanes Nagchana Nees [family ACANTHACEAE], in DC. Prod. xi. 109; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 410.
Calophanes natalensis T. Anders. [family ACANTHACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 23.
Calophanes crenatus Schinz [family ACANTHACEAE], in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iii. 415.
Linostylis ovata Sonder [family ], in Linnæa, xxiii. 94.
Information
a small shrub, nearly glabrous, the innovations minutely scabrous hairy; stems trailing, the ends of the branches erect; leaves up to 1 by 1/3 in. (usually smaller), elliptic, entire or obscurely crenate; petiole up to 1/4– 1/3 in. long; flowers in axillary clusters of 3–8; bracteoles scarcely 1/6 in. long, linear-oblong; calyx 1/3 in. long, divided 2/3 the way down, with linear scabrous-hairy teeth; corolla about 1/2 in. long, somewhat 2-lipped, upper part of the tube inflated; stamens 4, subsimilar; anthers tailed at the base; capsule 1/4– 1/2 in. long, suberect, glabrous. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa and in India.
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; amongst grass, near Phœnix Station, 400–500 ft., Wood, 4967! and without precise locality, Gueinzius, 46!
Notes
Thunberg found this species in Oudshorn Div.; in the Karoo behind Attaquas Kloof, in Vanrhynsdorp Div., between Olifants River and the Bokke Veldt, in Calvinia Div., at Hantam, and in Sutherland Div., on the Rogge Veldt, but Thunberg's plant may have been D. radicans, Nees, or one of the other closely allied species. The example of Wood, 4967, at the British Museum is Asystasia Schimperi, T. Anders., but this is not the Calophanes crenatus of Schinz; cf. Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xxii. 118.

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