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Limeum fluviale

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Name

Identification
Limeum aethiopicum Burm. [family AIZOACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Hans Walter, 1908 Isotype of Limeum fluviale Eckl. and Zeyh. [family AIZOACEAE ] Verified by Hb.Ecklon et Zeyher,
Related name
  • Limeum aethiopicum
  • Limeum fluviale

Flora

Entry for LIMEUM Æthiopicum Burm. [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 Æthiopicum Burm. [family MOLLUGINACEAE], Prod. p. 11;—Thunb. Cap. p. 343. E. & Z. No. 1840. Moq. l. c. p. 22.
LIMEUM fluviale E. & Z. [family MOLLUGINACEAE], ! No. 1839. Moq. l. c. Zey. 627, 628, 629, 2503, 2506.
Information
stems diffuse, woody, angular and striate, minutely scaberulous or glabrous, pale or greenish; leaves on short clasping petioles, linear or linear-lanceolate, obtuse or acute, often mucronulate, glabrous; cymes terminal and lateral, on short peduncles, or sub-sessile, dense, capitato-corymbose, many-flowered; sepals broadly oval, obtuse, mucronulate, one-nerved; fruit as long as the sepals, pitted and furrowed. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Sand hills and river banks in the eastern districts, Gauritz River, the Langekloof, Graaf-Reynet, and near the Zwartkops R., E. & Z.! Fish River and Geelbeck River; and Bitterfontein, Burke and Zeyher. (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.).
Notes
Nearly related to L. capense, from which it chiefly differs in its more woody stems, much narrower and more linear leaves, more prostrate growth and pale bark. L. fluviale, E. & Z.! is scarcely separable from the common form; the characters assigned to it are very variable.

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