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Echium plantagineum

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Name

Identification
Echium plantagineum L. [family BORAGINACEAE ]
Related name
  • Echium plantagineum

Flora

Entry for ECHIUM violaceum Linn. [family BORAGINACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 2, (1904) Author: By C. H. WRIGHT.
Names
ECHIUM violaceum Linn. [family BORAGINACEAE], Mant. 42;—DC. Prod. x. 22.
ECHIUM plantagineum Linn. [family BORAGINACEAE], Mant. 202; Jacq. Hort. Vind. i. t. 45; DC. Prod. x. 22.
Information
stem herbaceous, erect, hirsute with tuberous-based hairs; leaves elliptic-oblong, 3 in. long, 9 lin. wide, the lower attenuated into petioles 1 in. long, the upper getting gradually smaller, lanceolate, sessile, amplexicaul; cymes scorpioid, racemosely arranged along the upper part of the stem; calyx 4 lin. long, hirsute outside, more sparingly so inside; lobes lanceolate; corolla 9 lin. long, oblique, intense blue-violet, pilose outside in the upper part; tube funnel-shaped; lobes rounded; stamens fixed at unequal heights in the corolla-tube, exserted; filaments curved; anthers elliptic, 3/4 lin. long, dorsifixed; style pilose in the lower three-quarters, bifid; nutlets ovoid, acuminate, muricate. null
Range
Also in South Europe, the Orient, North Africa, Canary Islands, and South Temperate America.
Distribution
COAST REGION Cape Div.; by roads adjacent to formerly cultivated fields near Cape Town, 100 ft., Bolus, 4989! Herschel Lane, Claremont, Wolley Dod, 1893!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Villette! Wallich! Harvey, 398.
Notes
Introduced into South Africa.

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