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Lagarinthus macer

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Name

Identification
Sisyranthus macer (E.Mey.) Schltr. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE ] (stored under name); Sisyranthus imberbis Harv. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE ] Lagarinthus macer E.Mey. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE ] Verified by Brown, N.E.,
Related name
  • Lagarinthus macer
  • Sisyranthus imberbis
  • Sisyranthus macer

Flora

Entry for SISYRANTHUS macer Schlechter [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 518, (1909) Author: By N. E. BROWN.
Names
SISYRANTHUS macer Schlechter [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1897, 291, as to E. Meyer's plant only
SISYRANTHUS imberbis Schlechter [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 12, and xxi. Beibl. 54, 12, with a false reference to E. Meyer, not of Harvey.
Lagarinthus macer E. Meyer [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Comm. 206.
Gomphocarpus macer Dietr. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Syn. Pl. ii. 901.
Periglossum macrum Decne [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in DC. Prodr. viii. 520.
Information
exactly like S. imberbis in habit, stem, umbels, and measurements of corolla; leaves 4–5 in. long, 2/3–1 1/2 lin. broad; corolla entirely glabrous within and without; corona-lobes erect, shorter than the stamens, 1/2 lin. long and as much in breadth, usually very broadly ovate and entire or somewhat angular at the sides or 3-toothed, with the side teeth very small and the middle one broadly deltoid obtuse, or rarely subquadrate and shortly acuminate; staminal column 3/4 lin. long; anthers erect, exceeding the style-apex, narrowly oblong, minutely apiculate, not ciliate. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Komgha Div.; hills near Komgha, Flanagan, 374! Kaffraria, Drège, 4974!
Notes
This may be only a variety or hybrid form of S. imberbis, but the absence of the tufts of hair in the corolla-tube, which evidently play some important part in the economy of this genus, seem to point to a specific distinction. The corona-lobes in different flowers of the single type specimen vary considerably. It seems to be rare, as I have only seen the two specimens above quoted.

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