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Hedyotis stricta

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Name

Identification
Oldenlandia gracilis DC [family RUBIACEAE ] Verified by Hooker, Kohautia gracilis DC [family RUBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Hedyotis gracilis DC. [family RUBIACEAE ] Hedyotis stricta Wall. [family RUBIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Kohautia gracilis
  • Oldenlandia gracilis
  • Kohautia longiflora
  • Oldenlandia cynanchica
  • Oldenlandia virgata
  • Hedyotis stricta
  • Kohautia cynanchica
  • Hedyotis gracilis

Flora

Entry for HEDYOTIS stricta Smith [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 stricta Smith [family RUBIACEAE], Rees's Cyclop. vol. 17, no. 21
Kohautia stricta DC. [family RUBIACEAE], l. c. p. 430.
Kohautia thymifolia E. Mey. [family RUBIACEAE], in Hb. Drege. b. non a.
Information
annual, smooth or a little tubercled; branches erect, subcompressed; leaves narrow-linear, with revolute margins; stipules joined to the petioles by a very narrow margin, furnished each with 2 short bristles; flowers trichotomously corymbose; pedicels unequal; teeth of the calyx shorter than the tube; corolla with very long tube and oblong lobes, fruit smooth. Very nearly allied to H. brachyloba, but differs in the more straight habit, narrower leaves (1 inch long, 1/2 line broad), which are quite smooth and glabrous, somewhat larger flowers and fruit. The cyme or corymbose panicle is about 1 inch long. Calyx 1 line, the tube of corolla 6 lines, the lobes 2 lines long. Capsule 1 1/2 lines long.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Winterveld and Nieuweveld, Drege.; Taba Uncha, Gamkariver, Springbokkeel, Zeyh. 759, 760. Namaqualand, A. Wyley, Dec.-Jan. (Herb. D., Sd.)

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