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Limeum canescens

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Name

Identification
Limeum canescens E.Mey. [family MOLLUGINACEAE ] Limeum africanum L. [family MOLLUGINACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Friedcrich, H.C.,
Related name
  • Limeum canescens
  • Limeum africanum

Flora

Entry for LIMEUM canescens E. Mey. [family MOLLUGINACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 151, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
LIMEUM canescens E. Mey. [family MOLLUGINACEAE], MS.;—Moq. in DC. Prod. l. c. p. 21.
Information
“stems herbaceous, procumbent, branching, angular, glabrous, green; leaves petiolate, oblong-linear, acute, muticous or mucronulate, glabrous, covered with a glaucous rime, the lower leaves obovate; cymes terminal, pedunculate, corymbose, many-flowered; sepals ovate, acuminate, nerveless; fruits .....?” “Greenish-canescent, drying darker. Branches 1–1 1/2 foot long, slender. Leaves 4–9 lines long, including the petiole of 1–2 lines, 1 1/2–2 lines wide, tapering to each end. Cymes 5–7 lines wide, with crowded flowers. Sepals with white borders.” Moq. l. c.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA S. Africa, Drege 6229. Lange Valley, Zeyher 631, ex parte. (Herb. Sond.).
Notes
I translate Moquin's diagnosis for this species, which I only know by a specimen in Herb. Sond., from Zeyher; by whom it was mixed with L. capense.

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