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Mercurialis bupleuroides

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Name

Identification
Adenocline pauciflora Turcz. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Mercurialis bupleuroides Meissn. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] Verified by Krauss C. F.,
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  • Mercurialis bupleuroides
  • Adenocline pauciflora

Flora

Entry for ADENOCLINE humilis Turcz. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, Part 2, page 216, (1925) Author: (By N. E. BROWN, J. HUTCHINSON and D. PRAIN.)
Names
ADENOCLINE humilis Turcz. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. xvi. 61;—Turcz. in Flora, 1844, 121, and in Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. xxv. ii. 179, excl. syn. Meisn. and Sond.; Prain in Ann. Bot. xxvii. 407.
ADENOCLINE pauciflora Turcz. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. xvi. 60, as to the male plant with alternate leaves only.
ADENOCLINE pauciflora Müll. Arg. var. γ humilis [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1140, excl. syn. Kunze.
ADENOCLINE pauciflora Müll. Arg. var. θ tenella [family EUPHORBIACEAE], l.c.
Mercurialis tenella Meisn. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 556; Krauss in Flora, 1845, 84.
Mercurialis triandra Sond. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Linnæa, xxiii. 113, and Baill. Adansonia, iii. 160, as to syn. Meisn.; not of E. Meyer.
Mercurialis bupleuroides Baill. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Adansonia, iii. 159, partly; not of Meisn.
Mercurialis pauciflora Baill. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], l.c. partly.
Euphorbiacea 3441 Drège [family ], Zwei Pfl. Documente, 45, partly.
Information
a diœcious herb with many filiform ascending stems, rather virgately branched, springing from a slender perennial woody base which is 1–3 in. long, the herbaceous stems 1/2–1 ft. long; leaves alternate, distinctly petioled, thinly membranous, below ovate or oblong or suborbicular, acute rarely obtuse, base shallow-cordate, gradually narrowed upwards to ovate-lanceolate with cuneate base, sometimes the lower leaves cuneate, very rarely the upper leaves cordate at the base, margin wide shallow-crenate rarely serrate, sometimes quite entire, 1/3– 1/2 in. long, 1/5– 1/3 in. wide, glabrous on both surfaces; petiole 1/5– 1/4 in. long below, 1/8– 1/6 in. long above, glabrous; stipules small, lanceolate, 1 lin. long or less, entire or faintly denticulate; male flowers in axils of uppermost leaves, several to an axil; female flowers not seen; male calyx-segments 5; stamens 6–8. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Graaf Reinet Div.; Cave Mountains, 4400 ft., Bolus, 697, partly! 4570!COAST REGION Mossel Bay Div.; banks of the Great Brak River, Burchell, 6157! Humansdorp Div.; Zitzikamma, Krauss, 1911; Stockenstrom Div.; Kat Berg, Drège, 3441, male plant only! 8223! Queenstown Div.; Hangklip Mountain, 6000 ft., Galpin, 1782!
Notes
Nearly allied to A. ovalifolia, Turcz., but readily distinguished by the very small stipules; also nearly related to A. serrata, Turcz., but easily distinguished by the petioled upper leaves.

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