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Lasiosiphon kraussii

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Identification
Isotype of Gnidia kraussiana Meisn. [family THYMELAEACEAE ] Verified by Peterson, Lasiosiphon kraussii Meisn. [family THYMELAEACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Lasiosiphon djuricus
  • Lasiosiphon affinis
  • Lasiosiphon kraussianus
  • Lasiosiphon anthylloides
  • Gnidia kraussiana
  • Lasiosiphon kraussii
  • Gnidia djurica

Flora

Entry for LASIOSIPHON Kraussii Meisn. [family THYMELAEACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, Part 2, page 1, (1925) Author: (By C. H. WRIGHT.)
Names
LASIOSIPHON Kraussii Meisn. [family THYMELAEACEAE], in DC. Prodr. xiv. 596;—Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 310; Wood & Evans, Natal Pl. iii. t. 256; Pearson in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 231; Sim, For. Fl. Cape Col. 302.
LASIOSIPHON affinis Kotschy & Peyr. [family THYMELAEACEAE], Pl. Tinn. 39, t. 19 B.
LASIOSIPHON djuricus Gilg [family THYMELAEACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 269.
Gnidia kraussiana Meisn. [family THYMELAEACEAE], in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. (1843), 552, 553, incl. vars. pubescens and glabrata; Gilg in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 283.
Gnidia djurica Gilg [family THYMELAEACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 268.
Gnidia dschurica Gilg [family THYMELAEACEAE], in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 6 A, 228.
Gnidia usinjensis Gilg [family THYMELAEACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 269; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. l.c.
Information
a very variable plant; stems stout, herbaceous from a woody base, glabrous or pubescent; leaves lanceolate to oval, 8–18 lin. long, 1–6 lin. wide, quite glabrous to densely pilose, acute or obtuse; flowers in a terminal peduncled head; bracts ovate, acute, silky; calyx-tube 7–9 lin. long, cylindrical, silky outside and with long white hairs at the base; lobes oval, obtuse, 2 lin. long, 1 lin. wide; petals half as long as the calyx-lobes, lanceolate, acute, membranous; anthers oblong, 1/2 lin. long; ovary ovate, compressed, hairy, especially at the top; style about as long as the calyx-tube; stigma capitate. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa.
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Tembuland; Mount Bazeia, Baur, 254! Pondoland; without precise locality, Bachmann, 897! Griqualand East; Maclear, plains at base of Tent Kop, 5600 ft., Galpin, 6826! Kokstadt, 4300 ft., Tyson, 1098! and in Bolus & MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 458! Natal; near Durban, Sutherland! Inanda, Wood, 177! 188! between Pietermaritzberg and Greytown, Wilms, 2246! Vryheid, Sim, 2920! Dumisa, Rudatis, 490! Table Mountain, Krauss, 455! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 585! Mrs. Hutton, 349! Cooper, 3090!KALAHARI REGION Orange River Colony; Bethlehem, Richardson! Harrismith, Sankey, 170! Besters Vlei, near Witzies Hoek, 5400 ft., Bolus, 8426! Flanagan, 1871! and without precise locality, Cooper, 832! Transvaal; near Pretoria, 4500 ft., Miss Leendertz, 280! Rehmann, 4531! McLea in Herb. Bolus, 5809! Burtt-Davy, 786; Waterval Boven, Rogers! Magaliesberg, Burke! Piet Retief, Burtt-Davy, 1914! Lydenburg, Wilms, 1301! near Barberton, Bolus, 9758! Basutoland; Leribe, Mrs. Dieterlen. 7259!
Notes
Meisner (in DC. Prodr. xiv. 596) has described three varieties, viz., pubescens, glabratus and angustifolius, which cannot be maintained owing to the impossibility of defining them by constant characters, as pointed out by Pearson, l.c. Bolus, 8246, has densely hairy and quite glabrous leaves in the same gathering. The species is polymorphic to a high degree.

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