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Lonchostoma monostylis

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Identification
Lonchostoma monostylis Sond. [family BRUNIACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for LONCHOSTOMA monostylis Sond. [family BRUNIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 309, (1894) Author: (By W. SONDER).
Names
LONCHOSTOMA monostylis Sond. [family BRUNIACEAE]
Gravenhorstia fastigiata Nees. [family ], Esenb.! in Herb. E. & Z.
LONCHOSTOMA acutiflorum E. & Z. [family BRUNIACEAE], ! No. 1084, non Wickstroem.
Peliotes detrita E. Mey. [family ], in Herb. Drege.
Information
leaves ovate or oblong-lanceolate, hirsute beneath, or glabrescent; bracteæ linear-setaceous; calyx-segments linear-lanceolate; limb of the corolla ovate-lanceolate, acute; style 1, short. A small, greyish-villous half-shrub, 1–2 feet high, often much-branched, branches 3-chotomous or whorled. Leaves about 3 lines long, 1 line wide, the upper ones smaller, 5-farious-imbricate, with a black mucro. Spike about 1/2 inch long. Flowers exceeding the leaves. Bracteæ pubescent, 2 lines, calyx-segments about 3 lines long. Corolla smooth, 4 lines long. limb convolute, as long as the tube. Anthers oblong. Ovary with 4 ovules. Style about 1 line long; stigma sublobed. Fruit about 1 line long, crowned by the calyx. Very like L. obtusiflorum.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Mountain sides in Hottentottsholland near Palmietrivier, E. & Z. & Pappe, Dutoitskloof, 2–3000f., Drege. Oct.-Jan. (Herb. D., Sd., &c.)

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