Entry for MACRORUNGIA longistrobus C. B. Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 1, (1912) Author: By C. B. CLARKE.
Names
MACRORUNGIA longistrobusC. B. Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE]
Information
a shrub; branches, young leaves beneath, and innovations densely shortly white hairy; leaves 5 by 1 1/2 in., narrowed at either end, soon glabrate, tip obtuse; petiole 1/5 in. long; spikes 3 by 3/4 in., terminal on the main stem and on short axillary branches; bracts 2/3 by 1/3 in., imbricate, green with scarious margins, nearly glabrous; bracteoles minute; calyx 1/3 in. long, minutely but densely hairy within and without; styles 1 3/4 in. long. null
Distribution
KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Avoca, near Barberton, 1800 ft., Galpin, 888!
Notes
There is no fruit on Galpin's excellent specimen; but the corolla and stamens are so closely like those of M. pubinervis (of which the ripe fruit is known) that these two plants must be congeneric.
