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Lebeckia gracilis

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Name

Identification
Lebeckia gracilis Eckl. & Zeyh. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Lebeckia sepiaria
  • Lebeckia gracilis

Flora

Entry for LEBECKIA sepiaria Thunb. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
LEBECKIA sepiaria Thunb. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], Fl. Cap. 561;—E. & Z.! 1334, also
LEBECKIA gracilis E. & Z. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], ! 1336. Benth. l. c. p. 358.
LEBECKIA ambigua [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], litt. c. E. Mey., fide Benth.
Information
glaucous, ascending, suffruticose, sub-simple; leaves filiform, crowded, sub-erect, jointed; raceme elongate, densely many-flowered; rachis furrowed; flowers small; calyx teeth short, deltoid; legumes deflexed. Many stemmed, diffuse or decumbent, the ends of the branches ascending. Leaves densely set, 2–2 1/2 inches long, jointed at about 1 inch from the base, mucronulate. Racemes very densely flowered, cylindrical, 3–4 inches long; the flowers 2–2 1/2 lines long, bright yellow. Legumes 1–1 1/2 inch long, not a line wide, sub-compressed, acute at each end, margined on the ventral suture.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA West side of Lion's mountain and elsewhere, Thunberg! Near the Berg River, Cape District, E. & Z.! also in Uitenhage, E. & Z.! Pappe! Knysna, Pappe! (Herb. Th., D., Sd., Hk.)
Notes
This is Thunberg's “ L. sepiaria ,” according to the original specimens in Herb. Upsal.

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