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Leucadendron stellare

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Identification
Leucadendron imbricatum R.Br. [family PROTEACEAE ] Leucadendron stellare (Sims) Sweet [family PROTEACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Williams,
Related name
  • Leucadendron imbricatum
  • Protea gnidiaefolia
  • Leucadendron empetrifolium
  • Leucadendron stellare
  • Protea not on sheet
  • Leucadendron canaliculatum

Flora

Entry for LEUCADENDRON fusciflorum 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 fusciflorum R. Br. [family PROTEACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 216;—Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 228.
LEUCADENDRON stellare Steud. [family PROTEACEAE], Nomencl. ed. i. 475.
LEUCADENDRON stellatum Sweet [family PROTEACEAE], Hort. Brit. ed. i. 345.
LEUCADENDRON canaliculatum E. Meyer [family PROTEACEAE], in Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 198, partly.
LEUCADENDRON brunioides Meisn. [family PROTEACEAE], l.c. 215, partly, excl. syn. L. meyerianum, Buek.
LEUCADENDRON inflexum Klotzsch fide Meisn. [family PROTEACEAE], partly, l.c. 216.
LEUCADENDRON tortum Meisn. var. inflexum [family PROTEACEAE], l.c.
LEUCADENDRON? tenuifolium Meisn. [family ], l.c. 227.
LEUCADENDRON imbricatum Meisn. var.? canaliculatum [family PROTEACEAE], l.c. 215, partly.
Protea torta Thunb. [family PROTEACEAE], Diss. Prot. 31; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 130.
Protea tenuifolia Thunb. [family PROTEACEAE], Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 135.
Protea Thunbergii Steud. [family PROTEACEAE], Nomencl. ed. 2, ii. 401.
Protea fusciflora Jacq. [family PROTEACEAE], Hort. Schoenb. i. t. 27.
Protea stellaris Sims [family PROTEACEAE], Bot. Mag. t. 881.
Protea globulariæfolia Knight [family PROTEACEAE], Prot. 30, partly.
Protea squarrosa Knight [family PROTEACEAE], Prot. 127, partly.
LEUCADENDRON Thunbergii Endl. [family PROTEACEAE], Gen. Suppl. 4, ii. 75.
Information
a shrub 4–5 ft. high, many-stemmed and much-branched; branches erect; young branchlets rather slender, minutely pubescent or puberulous; leaves of both sexes subequal, 1/3– 3/4 in. long, acicular, obtuse or subacute, thick and coriaceous, glabrous; male inflorescences numerous, often crowded towards the apices of the shoots, 1/4– 1/3 in. in diam., subglobose, with a few outer bracts; floral bracts 1/2–1 lin. long, oblong or lanceolate-oblong, shortly acuminate, obtuse or subobtuse, densely pilose or villous; perianth-tube 1 lin. long, cylindric above, gradually narrowed to the base, shortly villous; segments 2 lin. long, spathulate-linear, pubescent; limb 1/2 lin. long, oblong or lanceolate-oblong, subobtuse, shortly villous; anthers 1/3 lin. long, linear; style 2 1/2 lin. long, very densely hairy in the lower part; stigma 1/4 lin. long, clavate, obtuse; hypogynous scales 1 1/4 lin. long, linear, acute; female inflorescence solitary at the apex of each branchlet, about 1/2 in. long, ovoid; bracts 2 lin. long, 4 1/2 lin. broad, tomentose outside; perianth-tube 1 1/2 lin. long, glabrous; segments 2 1/2 lin. long, linear, villous; limb 1/4 lin. long, oblong, subobtuse, pubescent; staminodes 1/4 lin. long, linear-oblong; hypogynous scales 2 lin. long, linear; ovary compressed, 1 1/2 lin. long, ovate, covered with long hairs; style cylindric; stigma 1/3 lin. long, ellipsoid, obtuse; fruit 2 1/2 lin. long, ellipsoid, bluntly beaked, villous. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Clanwilliam Div.; between Lange Valley and Oliphants River, Drège! Worcester Div.; near Worcester, Rehmann, 2511! Caledon Div.; by the Zondereinde River, near Appels Kraal, Zeyher, 3652! Swellendam Div.; between Breede River and Zondereinde River, Burchell, 7489!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thom! Thunberg!

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