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Microloma lineare

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Microloma lineare R. Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE ]
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Entry for MICROLOMA tenuifolium K. Schum. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
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Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 518, (1909) Author: By N. E. BROWN.
Names
MICROLOMA tenuifolium K. Schum. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 222
MICROLOMA lineare R. Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Mem. Wern. Soc. i. 53; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 121; Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 855; E. Meyer, Comm. 222; Harv. Gen. S. Afr. Pl. ed. 1, 228; Thes. Cap. i. 58, t. 92; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 158; Dietr. Synop. Pl. ii. 909; Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 510; Krauss in Flora, 1844, 827.
MICROLOMA linearis O. Kuntze [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berl. iv. 268.
MICROLOMA tenuiflora O. Kuntze [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berl. iv. 268.
MICROLOMA tenuifolia Schlechter [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1896, 418.
Periploca tenuifolia Linn. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. i. 212; Thunb. in Nov. Act. Acad. Petrop. xiv. (1805), 517.
Periploca tenuifolia Linn. var. β [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. i. 212; Thunb. in Nov. Act. Acad. Petrop. xiv. (1805), 517.
Ceropegia tenuifolia Linn. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Mant. ii. 215, 346; Thunb. Prodr. i. 37, Fl. Cap. ed. 2, ii. 147, and ed. Schultes, 231; Pers. Syn. i. 277; Linn. Syst. Veg. ed. 14, 255; Lam. Encycl. i. 687, and Tabl. Encycl. ii. 325, t. 179, fig. 2.
Ceropegia tenuiflora Willd. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Sp. Pl. i. 1276.
Ceropegia sinuata Poir. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Suppl. Encycl. Meth. ii. 178; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 4; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 112.
Cynanchum radice glandulosa, &c. J. Burm. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Rar. Afr. Pl. Dec. 2, 36, t. 15.
Cynanchum linearibus foliis, &c. J. Burm. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], l.c. 37, t. 16, fig. 1.
Apocynum frutescens, &c. Pluk. [family APOCYNACEAE], Almagest. Bot. Mant. 17, t. 335, fig. 5.
Information
rootstock a cluster of stout fleshy roots; stem slender, twining, branching, subherbaceous, 1/2– 3/4 lin. thick, glabrous; leaves spreading or reflexed, glabrous; petiole about 1 lin. long; blade 1–2 3/4 in. long, 1/2– 2/3 lin. broad, linear, with strongly revolute margins, rarely flat, and then about 1 1/2 lin. broad, acute, narrowed into the short petiole at the base, very rarely auricled; cymes subaxillary, 3–7-flowered; peduncle 2–3 lin. long, glabrous or slightly pubescent; bracts 1 1/2–2 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, pubescent; pedicels 2–3 1/2 lin. long, thinly covered with a somewhat adpressed pubescence; sepals 2 1/2 lin. long, 1/2– 2/3 lin. broad, linear-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute, thinly pubescent or nearly glabrous; corolla urceolate, somewhat fleshy, glabrous outside, bright carmine-red; tube 2 1/2 lin. long, inflated at the base, contracted at the mouth, 5-angled, with 5 contiguous elongated tufts of deflexed fulvous hairs just below the mouth inside; lobes 1 lin. long and broad, orbicular-cordate, very obtuse, hairy at the base of the inner half, much overlapping and forming a spiral rosette closing the mouth of the tube; corona-tubercles small, obtuse, ascending, placed at the middle of the corolla-tube, on a level with the base of the tufts of hairs; staminal column 2 lin. long, 5-spurred at the middle; filament part stout, conical; follicles solitary, 2 1/4–3 in. long, 3 1/2–4 lin. thick, fusiform, tapering into a rather long point, minutely bifid at the apex; seeds 2 lin. long, ovate, concave on one face, very convex on the other, tuberculate. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Van Rhynsdorp Div.; Gift Berg, 1500–2500 ft., Drège! Clanwilliam Div.; Cederberg Range, near Ezels Bank, 2000–3000 ft., Drège (ex E. Meyer). Tulbagh Div.; near Roodezand Kloof, Lichtenstein (ex Schultes). Worcester Div.; without precise locality, Cooper, 1662! 1744! Paarl Div.; Paarl Mountains, 500–1000 ft., Drège! Cape Div.; on the Flats and mountains around and south of Cape Town, Thunberg! Burchell, 140! 811! Pappe! Ecklon, 525! (Alexander) Prior! Wilms, 3481; Wolley Dod, 3283! Krauss (ex Krauss). Stellenbosch Div.; Stellenbosch Flats, Lloyd in Herb. Sanderson, 970! Caledon Div.; Zwart Berg, near Caledon, Galpin, 4326! Swellendam Div.; between Riet Kuil and Hemel-en-Aarde, Zeyher, 3407! Tradouw Mountains, Drège (ex E. Meyer). Riversdale Div.; near the Zoetemelks River, Burchell, 6647! Uniondale Div.; Lange Kloof, Burchell, 5025! Bunbury, 166! Humansdorp Div.; near the Kromme River, Burchell, 4836! Uitenhage Div.; various localities, Burchell, 4641! Zeyher! Cooper, 1477! MacOwan, 1090! Drège (ex E. Meyer). Port Elizabeth Div.; about Baakens River, Burchell, 4359! MacOwan, 1090! Lloyd, 369!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Forster! Masson! Mund! Harvey, 538! Forbes, 262!
Notes
I do not find a double series of hairy patches within the corolla-tube of this species as implied by Bolus in the Journal of the Linnean Society, xxv. 163, in a under M. namaquense, nor do they occur in any other species that I have examined.

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