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Ectadium oblongifolium

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Identification
Isotype of Ectadium oblongifolium Meisn. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE ] Ectadiopsis oblongifolia (Meisn.) Schltr. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Cryptolepis oblongifolia
  • Ectadiopsis oblongifolia
  • Secamone unrecorded
  • Ectadium oblongifolium

Flora

Entry for CRYPTOLEPIS oblongifolia Schlechter [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 518, (1909) Author: By N. E. BROWN.
Names
CRYPTOLEPIS oblongifolia Schlechter [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1896, 315;—N. E. Br. in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. i. 249.
Ectadium oblongifolium Meisn. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 1843, 542 (by error 442); Hochst. in Flora, 1844, 827; Walp. Rep. iv. 481.
Secamone acutifolia Sond. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Linnæa, xxiii. 76; Walp. Ann. iii. 48.
Ectadiopsis oblongifolia Benth [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 741.
Ectadiopsis acutifolia Benth [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 741.
Ectadiopsis oblongifolia Schlechter [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xviii., Beibl. 45, 14; xx. Beibl. 51, 10.
Information
an erect branching shrub; branches usually rather long, slender, reddish-brown, very minutely scabrous; leaves ascending, glabrous; petiole 1/2–1 lin. long; blade 1–2 in. long, 1/4– 2/3 in. broad, varying from narrowly lanceolate to oblong-elliptic, acute, or obtuse and apiculate, cuneate or rounded at the base, pallid beneath; cymes subaxillary, subsessile, trichotomous, 1/2– 3/4 in. in diam.; bracts 1/2–1 lin. long, ovate, obtuse; pedicels 1–1 1/2 lin. long; sepals 2/3– 3/4 lin. long, oblong, obtuse, minutely ciliate at the apex; corolla quite glabrous, yellowish-green; tube 2/3–1 lin. long, campanulate; lobes 1 1/3–1 3/4 lin. long, 2/3– 3/4 lin. broad, oblong or lanceolate-oblong, obtuse; corona-lobes inserted at the middle of the corolla-tube, 1/4– 1/3 lin. long, subterete or clavate, truncate, obtuse or acute, fleshy; anthers deltoid, very acuminate; follicles diverging at an angle of about 80°, 3–3 3/4 in. long, about 1/4 in. thick, narrowly fusiform, gradually tapering from about the middle to a subacute point, glabrous; seeds about 4 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, narrowly oblong, convex on one side, concave, with a central ridge on the other, minutely scabrous. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa.
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; at the borders of woods near the Umgeni River, Krauss, 132! Inanda, Wood, 446! Fields Hill, Wood in Natal Herb., 9! Palmiet River, Gerrard, 10! near Durban, Gerrard, 595! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 132!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Magalies Berg, Burke, 322! in stony places  near the Mooi River and on the Magalies Berg, Zeyher, 1182! near Apies River, 6000 ft., Schlechter, 3590, ex Schlechter, in stony places near Little Olifant River, 5000 ft., Schlechter, 3804! near Pretoria, McLea in Herb. Bolus, 5701! Leendertz, 145! 345! Apies Poort, Rehmann, 4159! hills near Barberton, 3000–3300 ft., Galpin, 383, ex Schlechter; stony places near Botsabelo, 5000 ft., Schlechter, 4096! near Johannesburg, Conrath, 1061! Gilfillan in Herb. Galpin, 6144! Rand, 959! Shiluvane, Junod, 864!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Zeyher, 1188!

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