Entry for MELOLOBIUM calycinum Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
MELOLOBIUM calycinumBenth. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], ! in Hook. Lond. Journ. 3. p. 350;—Zey.! 394.
Information
divaricately much-branched, scarcely glandular, spiny; twigs hairy-pubescent; leaflets glabrous or nearly so; stipules semi-cordate, equalling the petiole; bracts ovate-acuminate, longer than the calyx-tube; calyx villous, equalling the corolla, its segments ovato-lanceolate, acute; legume villous. A depressed, excessively and intricately branched bush, every where bristling with sharp, spinous ramuli, 1/2– 3/4 inch long, leafy at base. Leaflets linear-cuneate, folded together, green, 2–3 lines long, a line wide, minutely impresso-punctate. Flowers 1–3, sub-sessile, at the base of rigid ramuli, which are prolonged into naked spines; bracts and calyces hairy—one or two of the upper bracts barren.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Sand River, Betchuanaland, Burke & Zeyher! (Herb. Hk., Bth., Sd., D.)
