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Gnidia denudata

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Identification
Gnidia denudata Lindl. [family THYMELAEACEAE ]
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Entry for GNIDIA denudata Lindl. [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
GNIDIA denudata Lindl. [family THYMELAEACEAE], in Bot. Reg. t. 757;—Spreng. Syst. Cur. Post. 152; Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 123; Meisn. in Linnæa, xiv. 441, and in DC. Prodr. xiv. 585.
GNIDIA tomentosa Hook. [family THYMELAEACEAE], in Bot. Mag. t. 2761, excl. syn. Berg. et Thunb.
GNIDIA virescens Eckl. & Zeyh. [family THYMELAEACEAE], Herb. 11, ex Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 585.
Information
an erect shrub, up to 12 ft. high; branches virgate, moderately slender, densely pilose; leaves opposite, ovate-oblong, obtuse, approximate, 6 lin. long, 2–2 1/2 lin. wide, densely pilose at first on both surfaces, finally almost glabrous on the back; flowers in terminal and lateral clusters; calyx yellowish, densely pilose outside; tube 9 lin. long, ovoid and discoloured below, gradually widening above to 1 lin. in diam.; lobes oval, acute, glabrous inside, 2 lin. long, 1 lin. wide; petals 8, 1/2 lin. long; anthers twice as long as the petals; ovary compressed, glabrous except at the apex; style excentric, 5 1/2 lin. long; stigma subcapitate. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Swellendam Div.; Swellendam mountains, Pappe, 17! George Div.; near George, Tyson, 3010! and in MacOwan & Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 978! Rogers, 4293! Drège! in the forest near Touw River, Burchell, 5714! Knysna Div.; near Knysna, Bolus, 2443! 3714! Newdigate, 71! Humansdorp Div.; forest at Elands River, Zitzikamma, 500 ft., Galpin, 4529!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Mund!

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