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Hermannia muricata

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Name

Identification
Hermannia muricata Eckl. & Zeyh. [family BYTTNERIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, Mahernia dryadiphylla Eckl. & Zeyh. [family STERCULIACEAE ] Verified by Data not digitized,
Related name
  • Mahernia dryadiphylla
  • Hermannia dryadifolia
  • Hermannia hirsuta
  • Hermannia dryadiphylla
  • Hermannia muricata

Flora

Entry for HERMANNIA hirsuta Scrad.! & Wendl. [family STERCULIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 179, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
HERMANNIA hirsuta Scrad.! & Wendl. [family STERCULIACEAE], ! Sert. Han. t. 4;—DC. Prod. 1. p. 495. non E. & Z.
HERMANNIA muricata E. & Z. [family STERCULIACEAE], ! 343.
HERMANNIA verrucosa [family STERCULIACEAE], 340?
HERMANNIA scabra Jacq. [family STERCULIACEAE], Schoenb. t. 127, non Cav.
Information
suffruticose, slender, diffuse; branches hispid with spreading, white bristles; leaves petiolate, oblongo-obovate, obtuse, plicate, eroso-dentate, ciliate, sparsely hairy on the upper side, albo-tomentose and villous below; stipules cordato-cuspidate, amplexicaul; peduncles racemoso-paniculate; filiform, longer than the leaves, 1–2-flowered, bracteate near the summit; bracts lan-ceolate; calyx campanulate, villous, 5-toothed, the teeth distant, deltoid-acute; fil. obovate, longer than the anthers. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA South Africa; cult. Swellendam? E. & Z.! (Herb. R., Ber., Sond., Benth.)
Notes
Our description is taken from a garden specimen, which agrees perfectly with the figure above quoted, and also with Schrader's original in Herb. Berol. Ecklon's H. muricata, of which I have seen only a very bad specimen, belongs either to this species or to H. dryadifolia. H. verrucosa, E. & Z., from the Karroo, between Beaufort and Graaf Reynet, seems very similar; to judge by a fragment in Herb. Sond.

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