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Hedyotis brachyloba

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Name

Identification
Kohautia caespitosa [family RUBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, Isotype of Hedyotis brachyloba Sond. [family RUBIACEAE ] Verified by Data not digitized,
Related name
  • Kohautia caespitosa
  • Hedyotis brachyloba

Flora

Entry for HEDYOTIS brachyloba 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
HEDYOTIS brachyloba Sond. [family RUBIACEAE], in Linn. vol. xxiii. p. 50
Information
annual, scabrous, branches subcompressed; leaves linear-lanceolate, with subrevolute margins; stipules cleft into 3–4 bristles on both sides, which are shorter than the membrane; panicle lax, dichotomous; flowers sessile and pedicellate; teeth of the calyx twice shorter than the tube; corolla with very long tube and linear-oblong lobes; fruit smooth. A span high, beset with minute tubercles. Root longish, simple. Leaves 1 inch long, 2 lines broad, 1-nerved. Panicle subcorymbose, 3–4 inches long. Flowers geminate, one sessile or nearly so, the other on a 2–4 lines long pedicel. Bracteoles minute. Corolla 5–6 lines long; the lobes 1 line long, 1/4 line broad. Capsule globose, crowned by the minute calyx-teeth, 1 line long.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Komseep, near Springbokkeel. Feb. Zeyh. 761. (Herb. Sd., D.)

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