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Heliophila suavissima

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Name

Identification
Heliophila suavissima Burch. ex DC. [family BRASSICACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for HELIOPHILA suavissima Burch. [family CRUCIFERAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 19, (1894) Author: (By W. SONDER.)
Names
HELIOPHILA suavissima Burch. [family CRUCIFERAE], Cat. 2742;—DC. Syst. 2. p. 291. Sond. l. c. p. 248. t. 25. Zeyher No. 1900.
Information
suffruticose, glabrous; pods sublinear, tapering at base, spreading, tipped with a short style; leaves linear-subulate, subacute. Stem 1–2 feet high, branched at base, branches virgate, leafy in the lower part. Leaves 1–2 inches long, 1/2 line wide, often with axillary fascicles. Racemes 6 inches long, naked. Fruit stalks spreading. Flowers very sweet, rather large, violet or purple. Sepals 3 lines long. Style 1–2 lines long. Pod 1–1 1/2 inches long, 1 1/2 lines wide, with compressed valves, subsinuate, rarely straight-edged, somewhat three-nerved. Seeds 12–16 in each pod.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Grassy fields and on hills. Plettenberg's Bay, Burchell. Zwartkops R. Uit; and at Graaf Reynet, E. & Z. Somerset, Mrs. Barber. Gamke R, Burke & Z. Klaarstroom, Zwarteberg, Drege. β. Springbokkeel, Zeyher. Aug. Oct. and Feb. (Herb. Hook., Sond., T.C.D.).

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