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Hermannia trifurca

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Name

Identification
Hermannia trifurca L. [family BYTTNERIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, Mahernia hilaris Eckl. & Zeyh. [family STERCULIACEAE ] Verified by Data not digitized,
Related name
  • Hermannia bicornis
  • Hermannia not on sheet
  • Hermannia hilaris
  • Hermannia hyssopifolia
  • Mahernia incana
  • Hermannia trifurcata
  • Hermannia angularis
  • Hermannia odorata
  • Hermannia flammula
  • Hermannia joubertiana
  • Hermannia trifurca
  • Mahernia hilaris
  • Hermannia flammea

Flora

Entry for HERMANNIA flammula Harv. [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 flammula Harv. [family STERCULIACEAE]
HERMANNIA trifurca E. & Z. [family STERCULIACEAE], ! 370, ex parte; non Linn. Zey. 2009. Drege, 7287.
Information
erect, shrubby; branches stellulate; leaves sub-sessile, linear-cuneate, three-toothed or entire, densely stellato-pubescent on both sides; stipules linear or lin.-subulate, leafy, not half as long as leaf; peduncles somewhat racemose; one-flowered, as long as leaves; calyx campanulate, angular, stellate, deeply 5- parted, the lobes narrow-triangular, acute; petals twice as long as the calyx, the hispid claw much shorter than the limb; filaments linear-oblong, longer than the obtuse anthers; capsule pubescent, umboned. Very near H. flammea, but with smaller, more densely pubescent leaves, a more deeply parted calyx with narrower and more pointed segments, and smaller flowers. It does not turn black in drying.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Hartebeeste River, Caledon, and Vormansbosch, Zeyher! Swellendam, Thom! (Herb. Hook., Sond.).
Notes
It was formerly cultivated at Kew, and old garden specimens, but without name, are preserved in Herb. Hook. E. & Z., confounded under their “ H. trifurca ,” the present plant, with H. flammea and H. angularis and the following.

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