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Leucadendron adscendens

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Identification
Leucadendron adscendens R.Br. [family PROTEACEAE ] Leucadendron salignum P.J.Bergius [family PROTEACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Williams,
Related name
  • Protea conifera
  • Leucadendron adscendens
  • Leucadendron salignum
  • Leucadendron virgatum
  • Protea pallens
  • Leucadendron involucratum

Flora

Entry for LEUCADENDRON adscendens R. Br. [family PROTEACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 502, (1912) Author: By J. HUTCHINSON, E. P. PHILLIPS and O. STAPF.
Names
LEUCADENDRON adscendens R. Br. [family PROTEACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 61;—Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 222.
LEUCADENDRON salignum Berg. [family PROTEACEAE], in Vet. Akad. Handl. Stockh. 1766, 323, not of R. Br.
LEUCADENDRON virgatum R. Br. [family PROTEACEAE], l.c. 60.
LEUCADENDRON glabrum Meisn. var. angustifolium [family PROTEACEAE], l.c. 221.
LEUCADENDRON coniferum Meisn. [family PROTEACEAE], l.c. 227, partly.
LEUCADENDRON virgatum Drège [family PROTEACEAE], a, ♀, ex Meisn. l.c. 221, partly.
Protea pallens Linn. [family PROTEACEAE], Mant. alt. 193.
Protea conifera Linn. [family PROTEACEAE], Mant. alt. 193.
Protea pallens Thunb. [family PROTEACEAE], (α et β of Herb.),Diss. Prot. 53; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 134.
Protea conifera Thunb. [family PROTEACEAE], Diss. Prot. 53 (as to spec. α, β et δ of Herb.).
Protea pallida Salisb. [family PROTEACEAE], Prodr. 49.
Protea virgata Poir. [family PROTEACEAE], Encycl. Suppl. iv. 556.
Protea stricta Don ex Steud. [family PROTEACEAE], Nomencl. ed. ii. 401, fide Meisn. l.c. 252.
Protea obliqua Willd. ex Meisn. [family PROTEACEAE], l.c. 222.
Protea involucrata Willd. ex Meisn. [family PROTEACEAE], l.c. 222.
Thymelæa capitata, angusto, etc. Pluk. [family ], Mant. 181, t. 229, fig. 6.
Conocarpodendron folio angusto rigido, etc. Boerh. [family ], Ind. Pl. Hort. Lugd. Bat. ii. t. 200 (and t. 203?).
Scolymocephalus minor Weinm. [family ], Phyt. iv. 295, t. 903 a.
Frutex æthiopicus conifer foliis, etc. Breyn. [family ], Exot. Pl. Cent. 21, t. 9.
Information
a low-growing shrub 9–12 in. high; branches slightly angular, glabrous or rarely adpressed-pubescent; leaves on the branches much smaller and narrower at the base than those surrounding the inflorescence, the former 1/2–1 in. long, narrowly oblanceolate, the latter 1 1/4–2 1/2 in. long, in the male narrowly linear-oblanceolate, in the female lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, all hardened but scarcely apiculate at the apex, coriaceous, glabrous and longitudinally striate on both surfaces; male inflorescences solitary, terminal, conical or subglobose, 1/2– 3/4 in. long, 1/3– 2/3 in. in diam.; bracts 2/3 lin. long, linear-oblong, obtuse, villous; perianth-tube 1/2 lin. long, glabrous; segments 1 1/2 lin. long, spathulate-linear, glabrous; limb 3/4 lin. long, oblong, obtuse, glabrous; anthers 1/2 lin. long, oblong; style 1 lin. long, filiform-cylindric, glabrous; stigma 1/2 lin. long, clavate; hypogynous scales 1/3 lin. long, filiform; female inflorescences terminal, solitary, ellipsoid or subglobose, about 1 in. long and 3/4 in. in diam.; bracts 1 3/4 lin. long, ovate, obtuse, pubescent, ciliate; perianth-segments imbricate, the two lateral exterior, 2 1/3 lin. long, linear, narrowed below, villous in the middle; limb 1/2 lin. long, lanceolate, subacute, glabrous; staminodes 1/6 lin. long; hypogynous scales 3/4 lin. long, linear; style 1 3/4 lin. long, linear, narrowed to the base, glabrous; stigma 1/6 lin. long, flat, oblique; ovary 1/3 lin. long, oblong, winged; fruits winged, emarginate. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Calvinia Div.; Oorlogs Kloof, Schlechter, 10954! 10955!COAST REGION Clanwilliam Div.; between Lange Valley and Oliphants River, Drège! near Wupperthal, Leipoldt, 488! Tulbagh Div.; Pappe! Saron, Schlechter, 7878! 7879! Worcester Div.; Worcester, Cooper, 1593! Cape Div.; Mountains and Flats around Cape Town, Burchell, 41! 903! 8483! Bolus, 3702! Phillips, 271! Dümmer, 1239! Wolley-Dod, 2738! Zeyher, 3644! 4684! 4685, partly! Ecklon, 469! Pearson, 4922! 5046! Andersson! Drège! Wilms, 3573! 3574! Galpin, 4451! Stellenbosch Div.; Stellenbosch, Andersson! Caledon Div.; Mountains of Baviaans Kloof near Genadendal, Burchell, 7853! Zoetemelks Valley, Burchell, 7592! between Zwart Berg and the Zondereinde River, Zeyher, 3645! Robertson Div.; Sand Berg, near Robertson, Pearson! Oudtshoorn Div.; 20 miles from Oudtshoorn, Britten, 96! Uniondale Div.; between Avontuur and the Keurbooms River, Burchell, 5045! 5064! Uitenhage Div.; Van Staadens Berg, Paterson, 888! 889! 890! Bethelsdorp, Paterson, 699! Albany Div.; hill near Stones Hill Road, near Grahamstown, Misses Daly & Cherry, 1030! Var. β; Clanwilliam Div.; Zwartbosch Kraal, Schlechter, 5179!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Harvey, 379! 383! Wahlberg! Hooker! Thom, 269! Mund! Sieber, 8! 19! 383! Thunberg! Ludwig! Ecklon! Gueinzius! Hohenacker, 5! Var. β, Thunberg!

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