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Galenia pallens

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Identification
Galenia pallens (Eckl. and Zeyh.) Walp. [family AIZOACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on Sheet, Isotype of Kolleria glauca Eckl. and Zeyh. [family AIZOACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet,
Related name
  • Kolleria pallens
  • Kolleria glauca
  • Aizoon galenioides
  • Galenia pallens
  • Aizoon pubescens

Flora

Entry for GALENIA pallens Fenzl. [family AIZOACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 386, (1894) Author: (BY W. SONDER.)
Names
GALENIA pallens Fenzl. [family AIZOACEAE]
Kolleria pallens E. & Z. [family AIZOACEAE], ! 2144. 2145. Zeyher 2636.
Kolleria glauca E. & Z. [family AIZOACEAE], ! 2144. 2145. Zeyher 2636.
Information
very thinly puberous, glaucous or pale-yellowish; stem suffruticose, procumbent, branches diffuse or ascendent; leaves alternate, petiolate, obovate-spathulate, subcomplicate, with recurved apex, young ones opposite; flowers axillary, sessile, solitary, terminal ones mostly ternate, central sessile, lateral ones short-pedicellate; calyx 4- parted; styles 4. Habit and foliage exactly as in G. spathulata, from which it differs by the scarcely conspicuous, sometimes wanting pubescence and tetramerous flowers, very rarely mixed with a 5-parted calyx; 5 styles.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Fields near the Zwartkopsriver, E. & Z.; Dec. (Herb. Vind. D. Sd.)

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