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Galium expansum

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Name

Identification
Galium capense Thunb. [family RUBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Isotype of Galium expansum Thunb. [family RUBIACEAE ]
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  • Galium capense
  • Galium expansum

Flora

Entry for GALIUM Capense Thunb. [family RUBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 3, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. SONDER).
Names
GALIUM Capense Thunb. [family RUBIACEAE], ! Prod. p. 30
GALIUM expansum E. Z. [family RUBIACEAE], 2326, ex pte., E. Mey. in herb. Dreg.
Information
stem ascending or erect, downy or subscabrous, branched; leaves 6–8 in a whorl, linear-lanceolate or linear, mucronate, quite glabrous, rarely ciliolate on the revolute margins; peduncles lateral, 1–3-flowered; floriferous branches panicled; fruit glabrous, smooth, or a little downy. Polymorphous; var. α. resembling G. saxatile, var. β. G. uliginosum. Stems from 1/2–2 feet high, often numerous from the perennial roots; sometimes terete at the very base, but usually 4-sided as well as the mostly simple branches. Leaves 4–6 lines long, about 1/2 line broad, spreading or reflexed. The axillary inflorescence longer than the leaves. Flowers white. Fruit very small.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Sandy spots, and on mts. throughout the colony. Var. δ. high mts. near Heerelogement, Clanw., E. & Z., Drege. Sept.-Dec. (Herb. Thunb., Sd., D.)

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