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Gnidia tomentosa

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Gnidia tomentosa L. [family THYMELAEACEAE ]
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Entry for GNIDIA tomentosa Linn. [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 tomentosa Linn. [family THYMELAEACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. i. 358;—Wikstr. in Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. 1818, 317; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 381.
GNIDIA glandulosa Hayne ex Meisn. [family THYMELAEACEAE], in Linnæa, xiv. 439.
GNIDIA pubescens Berg. [family THYMELAEACEAE], Descr. Pl. Cap. 124; Meisn. in Linnæa, xiv. 438, and in DC. Prodr. xiv. 581; Bolus & Wolley-Dod in Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc. xiv. 315.
GNIDIA punctata Lam. [family THYMELAEACEAE], Encycl. ii. 765; Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 88.
GNIDIA scabra Thunb. [family THYMELAEACEAE], Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 380.
Calycosericos typica Eckl. & Zeyh. ex Meisn. [family ], in DC. Prodr. xiv. 581.
Information
an erect shrub; branches terete, dark purple, pubescent when young, leaf-scars prominent; leaves alternate, ovate-lanceolate or ovate-oblong, 5 lin. long, 2 lin. wide, subobtuse, pilose when young, afterwards flat and glabrous above, verrucose and 3–5-nerved beneath; flowers in terminal heads; calyx densely silky outside; tube 8–10 lin. long, slightly widened upwards; lobes ovate, subobtuse, 2 lin. long, 1 lin. wide; petals 4, anther-like, slightly bilobed, 1 lin. long, glabrous; anthers oblong, 1/2 lin. long; ovary ovoid, hairy at the top; style 7 lin. long; stigma small. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Pappe! Drège! Ecklon, 359! Zeyher, 4734! Burchell, 576! Devils Mountain, 1900 ft., Burchell, 8457! MacOwan, 560! Miss Kensit! below Constantia Berg, Wolley-Dod, 654! slope on Fish Hoek, Wolley-Dod, 429! Steen Berg, Wolley-Dod, 1144! 1148! Elsje Peak, Wolley-Dod, 2993! Muizenberg, near Kalk Bay, 1600 ft., Bolus, 3908! Simons Bay, Wright! Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek, 2000 ft., Schlechter, 9401! mountain near Palmiet River, Ecklon & Zeyher!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Villet! Burke! Mund! Grey! Milne!

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