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Epilobium montanum

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Name

Identification
Epilobium montanum L. [family ONAGRACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Epilobium silvaticum
  • Epilobium losae
  • Epilobium alpestre
  • Epilobium capense
  • Epilobium flavescens
  • Epilobium montanum

Flora

Entry for EPILOBIUM flavescens E. Mey. [family ONAGRACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 503, (1894) Author: (BY W. H. HARVEY.)
Names
EPILOBIUM flavescens E. Mey. [family ONAGRACEAE], ! in Herb. Drege
EPILOBIUM montanum E. & Z. [family ONAGRACEAE], ! 1759 (not of Linn.)
Information
stem erect, simple, virgate, terete, puberulous; leaves (except the 2–3 lowest pairs which are opposite and subsessile) alternate, minutely petiolate, rounded at base, ovate-oblong or ovato-lanceolate, distantly repando-dentate, puberulous; stigma 4- lobed, its lobes oblong, erecto-patent; pedicels of the fruit much longer than the leaves. Stems 1–2 feet high, in all our specimens quite simple. Leaves 1–1 1/2 inch long, 1/2– 3/4 inch wide, longer than the internodes; petioles 1–2 lines long. Fruit-pedicels 1 1/2 to twice as long as the floral leaf. Flowers a creamy white? Nearly allied to E. montanum, but the leaves are more closely placed, and none but the lowest opposite, and the fruit-stalks are proportionally much longer.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA On the Winterberg, Kaffr., E. & Z.! Between Zandplaat and Komga, and between the Omsamwubo and Omsamcaba, Drege. Water courses in Kreili's country, Mrs. F. W. Barber, 285. Natal, Krauss! 154. (Herb. Sd., D.)

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