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Mercurialis procumbens

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Identification
Mercurialis procumbens L. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Croton ricinocarpos L. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] Verified by Smith, Sir James Edward, Leidesia procumbens (L.) Prain [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
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  • Leidesia procumbens
  • Croton ricinocarpos
  • Mercurialis procumbens

Flora

Entry for LEIDESIA capensis Müll. Arg. [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
LEIDESIA capensis Müll. Arg. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 793, excl. syn. Urtica capensis, Linn. f. and Thunb.;—Benth. in Hook. Ic. Pl. xiii. 66, partly and excl. t. 1284; Pax in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. v. 50, fig. 31 A, B.
LEIDESIA sonderiana Müll. Arg. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], l.c. 699 (name only).
LEIDESIA procumbens Prain [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Ann. Bot. xxvii. 400.
Mercurialis procumbens Linn. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. i. 1036.
Mercurialis androgyna Steud. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Nomencl. ed. i. 524.
Mercurialis annua Thunb. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 387, partly (Outeniqua spec. only); not of Linn.
Mercurialis tricocca E. Meyer [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 201 partly (d, e, only).
Mercurialis capensis Spreng. ex Eckl. & Zeyh. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Linnæa, xx. 213 (name only); Sond. in Linnæa, xxiii. 112, partly, and excl. syn. Linn. f., and Thunb.; Baill. Adansonia, iii. 158, partly, and excl. syn. Linn. and Lehm.
Croton Ricinocarpos Linn. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. ii. 1427; Aubl. Hist. Pl. Guy. ii. 883; Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 551; Geisel. Crot. Monogr. 66; Spreng. Syst. iii. 877, as to descript. and syn. M. androgyna, excl. syn. Boerhaave and loc. Surinam.
Urtica capensis Eckl. [family URTICACEAE], Un. It. n. 814; not of Linn. f.
Adenocline Mercurialis Baill. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Étud. Gén. Euphorb. 457, partly; not of Turcz.
Information
a succulent herb; stem green, glabrous, suberect or diffuse, 4–12 in. long; leaves long-petioled, very thinly membranous, deltoid-ovate, subacute or obtuse, base truncate or shortly wide-cuneate, margin shallow-crenate, lobes 4 or more a side, 3/4–2 in. long, 1/2–1 1/3 in. wide, puncticulate, very sparingly pubescent above, glabrous or nearly so beneath; petiole 3/4–1 1/2 in. long, glabrous; stipules lanceolate; racemes 1–2 in. long; male bracts triangular-ovate, subacute, 1/6 in. long, hispid; male calyx 3-partite, lobes ovate, acute, sparingly hispid outside; stamens usually 6–7; capsule 2-coccous; cocci hispidulous, over 1 lin. across. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Ecklon, 814! Zeyher, 3844! Lehmann! Masson! Wright, 426! Devils Mountain, 1200 ft., Ecklon! Harvey, 504! Bolus, 2941! Wilms, 3623! above Overige Kloof, 2800 ft., Schlechter, 408! above Groote Schuur, Wolley-Dod, 607! George Div.; Outeniqua Mountains, Thunberg! Roode Muur, Drège (M. tricocca d)! near George, Burchell, 5847! Rogers! Uniondale Div.; Longkloof, Dümmer, 1376! Knysna Div.; Yzer Nek, Burchell, 5247! Karratera River, Drège (M. tricocca e)! Albany Div.; without precise locality, Bowie, 18!EASTERN REGION Tembuland; between Cala and Ugie, 5000 ft., Bolus, 10284! Griqualand East; Malowe Forest, Tyson, 2118! Natal; Ismont, 2000 ft., Wood, 1867!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Houtbosh, 6500 ft., Rehmann, 5923! Schlechter, 4427!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Herb. Swartz! and cultivated specimens!
Notes
This is Mercurialis procumbens, Linn., and M. androgyna, Steud.; it is not Urtica capensis, Linn. f. (Acalypha decumbens, Thunb., var. villosa, Müll. Arg.), nor is it U. capensis, Thunb. (Australina capensis, Wedd., and Droguetia Thunbergii, N. E. Br., mixed).

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