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Erodendrum limoniifolium
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Name
Identification
Erodendrum limoniifolium Knight [family PROTEACEAE ] Protea limoniifolia (Salisb. ex Knight) Rycroft [family PROTEACEAE ] Verified by Rycroft, H.B., Protea acaulos (L.) Reichard [family PROTEACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Rourke, J.P., Protea angustata R.Br. [family PROTEACEAE ] Protea acaulis Thunb. [family PROTEACEAE ]
Related name
- Protea acaulis
- Protea limoniifolia
- Erodendrum limoniifolium
- Protea angustata
- Protea acaulos
Flora
Entry for PROTEA acaulis Thunb. [family PROTEACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 502, (1912) Author: By J. HUTCHINSON, E. P. PHILLIPS and O. STAPF.
Names
PROTEA acaulis Thunb. [family PROTEACEAE], Diss. Prot. 56;—Thunb. Prodr. 27; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 529; Murr. Syst. Veg. ed. xiv. 141; R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 89; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. i. 503; Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 351; Bot. Mag. t. 2065; Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. Mant. 265; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 244; var. arenaria, Meisn. l.c. 245.
PROTEA nana Lam. [family PROTEACEAE], Ill. i. 233, not of Thunb.; Poir. Encyl. v. 639; Kerner, Hort. Sempervir. ix. t. 399, ex Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 351.
PROTEA arenaria Buek [family PROTEACEAE], in Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 213.
PROTEA acaulis Drège ex Meisn. var. α [family PROTEACEAE], l.c., partly.
Erodendrum limoniifolium Knight var. β [family ], Prot. 47.
Leucadendron acaulon Linn. [family PROTEACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. 1, i. 92.
Lepidocarpodendron acaulon, etc Boerh. [family ], Ind. Pl. Hort. Ludg. Bat. ii. 191, t. 191, fig. b.
Scolymocephalus seu Lepidocarpodendron acaulon, etc. Weinm. [family ], Phyt. iv. 291, t. 897.
Information
stems subterranean or prostrate on the ground and up to 1 ft. long, glabrous; leaves extremely variable, 3–8 1/2 in. long, 3/4–3 in. broad at the widest part, rotundate-obovate, obovate-lanceolate or oblanceolate, usually obtuse, rarely acute, often apiculate, long attenuated into a petiole, distinctly veined, with a callous margin, glabrous, often glaucous; head sessile, sometimes contracted into a short stipes, 1 1/4–1 1/2 lin. long, about 1 1/2 in. in diam.; involucral bracts 8-seriate, minutely ciliate, otherwise glabrous, outer ovate, obtuse; inner oblong, equalling the flowers; perianth-sheath 10–11 lin. long, rather wide, gradually dilated, 3-keeled and 7-nerved at the base, densely ciliate in the middle part, otherwise glabrous; lip 3 lin. long, 3-toothed, pubescent; teeth subequal, 1 1/2 lin. long; stamens all fertile; filaments 1/6 lin. long, flattened; anthers linear, 1 1/2 lin. long; apical glands 1/4 lin. long, lanceolate, obtuse; ovary 1 lin. long, elliptic-ovoid, covered with long reddish-brown hairs; style 11 lin. long, sickle-shaped, subulate from a narrow lanceolate more or less swollen base, terete above, glabrous; stigma 1 1/2 lin. long, finely subulate, obtuse, gradually passing into the style. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Clanwilliam Div.; near Ezelsbank, Drège. Piquetberg Div.; near Piquetberg, Drège! Tulbagh Div.; Witzenberg Range, Pappe! Paarl Div.; Paarl Mountain, Drège! Cape Div.; hills and flats around Cape Town, Thunberg! Masson! Burchell, 1! 8575! Ecklon, 11! Jameson! Krauss, 1071, Bolus, 3761! MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr. 780! Phillips! Pappe! Caledon Div.; various localities, Burchell, 7935! 8008! 8105! 8636! Zeyher, 3668! Bredasdorp Div.; Kars River, Ludwig. Uitenhage Div.; Winterberg Range, Krauss, 1071.SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Bergius! Roxburgh, Labillardière! Forster! Ecklon, 6! Gueinzius!