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Holosteum cordatum

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Name

Identification
Holosteum cordatum L. [family CARYOPHYLLACEAE ] (stored under name); Drymaria cordata (L.) Willd. [family CARYOPHYLLACEAE ] Verified by Charles Dennis Adams,
Related name
  • Drymaria cordata
  • Holosteum cordatum
  • Arversia memphitica
  • Drymaria glandulosa
  • Holosteum diandrum

Flora

Entry for DRYMARIA cordata [family CARYOPHYLLACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 120, (1894) Author: (By W. SONDER.)
Names
DRYMARIA cordata [family CARYOPHYLLACEAE], Willd. Hb., ex Roem. & Sch. 5. p. 406;—DC. Prod. 1. p. 395. Cham. & Schl. Linn. 1. p. 47.
Holosteum cordatum L. [family CARYOPHYLLACEAE]
Information
stem and leaves glabrous, shortly petioled, ovato-subrotund, acute or mucronate, rounded at base, or obsoletely cordate; peduncles dichotomous, many-flowered; calyx glabrous, longer than the petals; ovary 7–10 ovuled. A weak-growing, diffuse plant, a foot or more in length; stems and branches filiform, sometimes minutely puberulent. Leaves 6–8 lines long and wide, petiole 2 lines. Stipules small. Peduncles terminal, cymoid; flowers solitary in the forks, lateral peduncles elongate, 2–3 flowered or again cymoid. Calyx 2 lines long, with acuminate segments.
Range
A common tropical species.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Woods near the Hanglip, Aug. 1821., Mundt and Maire. (Herb. r. Berol).
Notes
The Cape specimens, preserved in the Berlin Herbarium, quite resemble the American forms, distributed by Sieber.

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