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Melolobium squarrosum

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Identification
Melolobium squarrosum Eckl. & Zeyh. [family FABACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Melolobium candicans (E.Mey.) Eckl. & Zeyh. [family FABACEAE ] Verified by Harvey, W.H., Melolobium canescens (E.Mey.) Benth. [family FABACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Melolobium canescens
  • Melolobium squarrosum
  • Melolobium candicans

Flora

Entry for MELOLOBIUM candicans E. & Z. [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 candicans E. & Z. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], ! 1323;—Benth.! l. c. p. 351.
Dichilus candicans E. Mey. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], ! Linn. 7. p. 154.
Sphingium velutinum E. Mey. [family ], ! Comm. p. 67.
MELOLOBIUM squarrosum E. & Z. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], ! 1325. Zey.! 2307, 391, 395.
Information
divaricately much-branched, scarcely glandular, spiny; twigs velvetty-canescent; leaflets glabrescent; stipules semi-cordate-ovate; bracts shorter than the calyx-tube; calyx villous or glabrescent, shorter than the corolla, its segments ovate; legume straight, 4–6 seeded, villous-hirsute. A rigid, spreading or depressed, spiny bush, laxly or densely branched: all the younger branches canescent. Leaflets narrow-obovate, obtuse, folded together when dry, 2–3 lines long. Flowers 2–3 sub-sessile, near the base of rigid, spine-tipped ramuli. The calyces are sometimes viscidulous. Legumes 3/4-inch long, sub-moniliform, pointed, nearly straight.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Cape, Bowie.! Fields by the Z wartkops River, E. & Z.! Adow, Zeyher. Sneeuberg and Uitvlugt, Drege! Bitterfontyn, Bechuana Land, Zeyher! (Herb. Bth., Hk., D., Sd.)

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