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Lagenocarpus imbricatus

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Name

Identification
Erica serrata Thunb. [family ERICACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by HBG-formal name change, 2010 Lagenocarpus imbricatus Klotzsch [family ERICACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Lagenocarpus imbricatus
  • Erica hispidula
  • Erica binaria
  • Nagelocarpus imbricatus
  • Nagelocarpus serratus
  • Erica serrata

Flora

Entry for LAGENOCARPUS imbricatus Klotzsch [family ]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 2, (1909) Author: By H. BOLUS, F. GUTHRIE, and N. E. BROWN.
Names
LAGENOCARPUS imbricatus Klotzsch [family ], in Linnæa, xii. 214;—Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 710; Rach in Linnæa, xxvi. 792.
Erica serrata Thunb. [family ERICACEAE], Prodr. 69, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 346.
Blæria serrata Thunb. [family ], Diss. Blæria, 6.
Salaxis imbricatus Drude [family ERICACEAE], in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. i. 64, fig. A D inaccurate.
Information
1–1 1/2 ft. high, much branched; branchlets minutely tomentose-puberulous; leaves 3-nate, erectly imbricate, ascending or more rarely spreading, longer than the internodes, 1–2 lin. long with the petiole, oblong or oblong-linear, subacute, very minutely scabrid or erose-denticulate on the margins and sometimes edged with minute sessile glands when young; flowers axillary and terminal, 1–3 together or sometimes several clustered at the ends of the branchlets; calyx 3/4–1 lin. long, coriaceous, glabrous, green; teeth usually about half as long as the tube, very broadly deltoid-ovate, acute or obtuse, with or without minute sessile glands on their edges; corolla 2/3– 3/4 lin. long from its insertion on the ovary, glabrous, greenish; lobes 1/3 as long as the tube; ovary shortly but distinctly stalked, somewhat globose or ellipsoid, abruptly narrowed into a stout puberulous style; stigma puberulous on the underside. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Paarl Div.; mountains around French Hoek, 1900–4000 ft., Bolus, 7000! Schlechter, 9280! Stellenbosch Div.; Gordons Bay, 100 ft., Guthrie! Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek Mountains, Ecklon & Zeyher, Schlechter, 7329! Bolus, 5411! mountains near Genadendal, Burchell, 7683! Drège! Bolus, 7406! Zwart Berg, near Caledon, Ecklon & Zeyher, Pappe! Babylons Tower, Ecklon & Zeyher! Shaws Mountain, Galpin, 3729! Bredasdorp Div.; Elim, 600 ft., Schlechter, 7644!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg!

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