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Littonia modesta

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Name

Identification
Littonia modesta Hook. [family COLCHICACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for LITTONIA modesta Hook. [family COLCHICACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, page 253, (1897) Author: (By J. G. BAKER).
Names
LITTONIA modesta Hook. [family COLCHICACEAE], in Bot. Mag. t. 4723;—Harvey, Cape Gen. edit. 2, 403; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 458.
Information
stem slender, simple, short and suberect, or longer and sarmentose; leaves ovate or lanceolate or linear, cirrhiferous at the tip, central verticillate, upper opposite or alternate; flowers solitary from the axils of the upper leaves on slender, ebracteate, cernuous pedicels 1–2 in. long; perianth 3/4–1 1/4 in. long; segments oblong-lanceolate, acute; stamens and pistil about 1/2 in. long; capsule 1 1/2 in. long. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; Nottingham, Buchanan! near Tongaat, M'Ken! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 758! Gueinzius!KALAHARI REGION Orange Free State; Nelsons Kop, Cooper, 880! Transvaal, Houtbosch, 5813! Umvoti Creek, Barberton, Galpin, 761! near Lydenburg, Atherstone!

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