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Galium mucroniferum

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Name

Identification
Galium mucroniferum Sond. [family RUBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by C. Puff, Galium dregeanum Sond. [family RUBIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Galium verum
  • Galium mucroniferum
  • Galium dregeanum
  • Galium not on sheet
  • Galium mucronatum

Flora

Entry for GALIUM mucroniferum Sond. [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 mucroniferum Sond. [family RUBIACEAE]
GALIUM mucronatum E. Mey. [family RUBIACEAE], non Thunb. Drege, 7677, 7684, 7686, 7689.
Information
stem erect or ascending, 4-sided, glabrous, prickled on the angles; leaves 6 in a whorl, lanceolate, with a longish mucro, prickly along the margins, shining; peduncles axillary, solitary, 2-flowered; pedicels as long as the peduncle, and fruit glabrous. Stems 1/2–1 1/2 foot, minutely prickled. Internodes as long or longer than the leaves, shining. Leaves 4–5 lines long, 1 line broad, with recurved prickles on margins and middle nerve. Pedunc. and pedicels capillary, bracteated at the division. Flowers glabrous. Ripe fruit the size of a small peppercorn, shining; one of the mericarps often abortive. It varies with downy ovaries.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Wet rocky places, near Gnadenthal, Dutoitskloof, Drege; in Caffraria, E. Z. Oct.-Jan. (Herb. D., Sd.)

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