Entry for KNOWLTONIA gracilis DC. [family RANUNCULACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
KNOWLTONIA gracilisDC. [family RANUNCULACEAE], Syst. 1. p. 219;—DC. Prod. 1. p. 23. Deless. Ic. 1. t. 19. Eck. & Zey! En. No. 9. Drege, No. 7600, 7601!
Information
sparsely hispid; leaves biternate, segments subglabrous, ovate, acute, sharply serrate, the lateral ones subsessile, obliquely truncate at base; peduncles tall, erect, branched near the summit; petals broadly linear; ovaries densely setose, half as long as the filiform styles. Petioles and scapes thinly sprinkled with soft, spreading hairs; leaves nearly glabrous, except along the veins. Scapes 2 feet high or more. Ovaries densely clothed with rigid, white bristles; by which character this species is readily known from the preceding.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Near Constantia, E. & Z.! at the Paarl and French Hoek, W.H.H. Dutoits Kloof and Drackenstein, Drege! (Herb. T.C.D., Hook. Sond.)
