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Evolvulus natalensis

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Identification
Evolvulus natalensis Sond. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by [Not on sheet], Evolvulus alsinoides (L.) L. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] Verified by Ooststroom, S.J., 1934
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  • Evolvulus alsinoides
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Flora

Entry for EVOLVULUS alsinoides Linn. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 45, (1904) Author: By J. G. BAKERand C. H. WRIGHT.
Names
EVOLVULUS alsinoides Linn. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], Sp. ed. 2, 392;—Choisy in DC. Prod. ix. 447; Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 85.
EVOLVULUS natalensis Sonder [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in Linnæa, xxiii. 80.
Information
a perennial herb; stems very slender, densely tufted, suberect or trailing, about 1 ft. long, thinly clothed with lax brown silky hairs; leaves nearly sessile, obovate-oblong, entire, 6–9 lin. long, obtuse, distinctly mucronate, thinly silky; peduncles longer than the leaves, 1–3-flowered, with minute linear silky bracts at the base of the short spreading pedicels; calyx 1 1/2–2 lin. long, densely silky; sepals lanceolate, acute; corolla subrotate, 1/4 in. in diam., white or violet-blue; capsule fragile. glabrous, as long as the calyx. null
Range
Widely distributed in the tropics.
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; Tugela, Gerrard, 1335! near Verulam, Wood, 745! Var. β: Tugela, Gerrard, 1907!KALAHARI REGION Griqualand West, Herbert Div.; St. Clair, Orpen, 206! Bechuanaland; Bakwena Territory, 3500 ft., Holub! Transvaal; Houtbosch, Rehmann, 5930! Var. γ: Bechuanaland; on rocks at Chue Vley, Burchell, 2382! at Kuruman, Burchell, 2185! South African Gold-fields, Baines! Transvaal; Wonderboom Poort, near Pretoria, Rehmann, 4535! lower hill-slopes near Barberton, 2800 ft., Galpin, 634! and without precise locality, Sanderson!

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