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Galopina circaeoides

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Name

Identification
Galopina circaeoides Thunb. [family RUBIACEAE ] Galopina circaeoides Thunb. [family RUBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Puff, C.,
Related name
  • Galopina circaeoides
  • Galopina crocyllioides
  • Anthospermum galopina

Flora

Entry for Galopina circaeoides [family ACANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Galopina circaeoides [family ACANTHACEAE]
Common names
G. circaeoides Thunb. var. glabra Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 3,2: 120(1898). Types: Cape, Swellendam, Kuntze s.n. (K, lecto.!), Perie-Wald, Kuntze s.n. (K!). G. circaeoides Thunb. var. pubescens Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 3,2: 120 (1898). Type: Cape, Cathcart, Kuntze s.n. (K, holo.!; US sub554842!). Anthospermum galopina Thunb., Prod. 1: 32 (1794). Phyllis galopina (Thunb.) Cruse in Linnaea 6: 20 (1831). Type: as forC. circaeoides.
Habitat
Variable in stem and leaf indumentum and leaf size and shape, but easily distinguished from its nearest ally, G. tomentosa (below), by its lax, broad and extensive inflores­cence and its less dense and shorter indumentum.
Use
1. Galopina circaeoides Thunb., Nov. Gen. PI. 1: 3 (1781); Cruse, Rub. Cap. 18 (1825); Sond. in F.C. 3: 26 (1865); Brenan in Mem. N.Y. bot. Gdn 8: 454 (1954); Compton, Fl. Swazild 586 (1976). Type: Cape, in sylvis Hautniquas, Groot Vaders-Bosch, aliisque. Thunberg in herb. Thunberg (sheet 23313, UPS, holo.!), in herb. Montin (S!) and in herb. Gasstrom (S!).
Range
Occurs from Transvaal to the south-western Cape; also in eastern Zimbabwe and adjacent parts of Mozambique and in southern Malawi. Growing mostly in kloof or gallery forests, in scrub along streams or in bushclumps. Map 45.

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