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Gnidia capitata L.f. [family THYMELAEACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for LASIOSIPHON linifolius Decne [family THYMELAEACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, Part 2, page 1, (1925) Author: (By C. H. WRIGHT.)
Names
LASIOSIPHON linifolius Decne [family THYMELAEACEAE], in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 148;—Walp. Ann. i. 587; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 595, incl. vars. pubescens and glabrata; Sim, For. Fl. Cape Col. 302.
Gnidia capitata Linn. f. [family THYMELAEACEAE], Suppl. 224; Thunb. Prodr. 76, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 378, partly; Willd. Sp. Pl. ii. 426; Wikstr. in Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. 1818, 314; Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 138; Meisn. in Linnæa, xiv. 424.
Gnidia transvaaliensis Gilg [family THYMELAEACEAE], in De Wild. Pl. Nov. Herb. Hort. Then. i. 206, t. 46, figs. 10–16.
Dais linifolia Lam. [family THYMELAEACEAE], Encycl. ii. 255, and Ill. ii. 492, t. 368, fig. 3; Pers. Syn. i. 471.
Passerina involucrata Spreng. ex Meisn. [family THYMELAEACEAE], in DC. Prodr. xiv. 595.
Information
a shrub; branches diffuse, rigid, glabrous, leaf-scars prominent; leaves lanceolate, acute, subpungent, 7–11 lin. long, 2 lin. wide; flowers about 10 in terminal clusters; involucral bracts ovate-lanceolate, acute, pungent, 6 lin. long, 2 1/2 lin. wide; calyx densely tomentose outside; tube about 4 lin. long, slender, inflated below, subcylindrical above; lobes patent, ovate, obovate or rotundate, about 1 1/2 lin. long and 1 lin. wide; petals 1 lin. long, oblong, obtuse, entire, glabrous; anthers oblong, the upper exserted and larger than the lower; ovary oblong; style excentric, slightly shorter than the calyx-tube; stigma small. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div.; Klein Bruintjes Hoogte, Drège! Bosch Berg, Bolus, 1749!COAST REGION Uitenhage Div.; on plains near Uitenhage, Bowie! Addo, Zeyher, 210! Zuurberg Range, Cooper, 3089! Albany Div.; near Grahamstown, Burchell, 3607! MacOwan! Misses Daly & Sole, 355! Atherstone! between Zwartewater Poort and the east end of Zwartewater Berg, Burchell, 3448! Rock-cliffe near Sidbury, Miss Daly, 761! Brak Kloof, Mrs. White, 1064! and without precise locality, Cooper, 1525! King Williamstown Div.; King Williamstown, 1500 ft., Sim, 2948! Queenstown Div.; plains, Queenstown, Galpin, 1560! Cooper, 3084! Imvane, Baur, 80! Zwartkei River, Baur, 100!EASTERN REGION Tembuland; Bazeia, 2000 ft., Baur, 537! Umtata, Baur, 538! Griqualand East; Kokstad, 4300 ft., Tyson, 1112! 1531! and in MacOwan   & Bolus, Herb. Austr.-Afr., 1228! Natal; near Newcastle, Wilms, 2251! Weenen County, Wood, 3446!KALAHARI REGION Orange River Colony; Bethlehem, Richardson! and without precise locality, Cooper, 3087! Transvaal; Magalies Berg, Zeyher, 1495! near Pretoria, McLea in Herb. Bolus., 3112! Miss Leendertz, 405! Wilms, 1304! around Barberton, 2000–4000 ft., Galpin, 495! Maquasi Hills, Nelson, 235! Skinners Court Experiment Station, 4500 ft., Burtt-Davy, 5044! Lydenberg, Wilms, 1305! Crocodile River, Quintas, 229, King's Farm, between Venters Poort and Middelburg, Bolus, 9759!
Notes
Meisner's two varieties cannot be maintained. The pubescence on the involucral leaves seems to be more or less deciduous and cannot, therefore, be relied upon as a varietal character.

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