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Mimetes intermedia

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Identification
Mimetes intermedia H.Buek ex Meisn. [family PROTEACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet., Diastella serpyllifolia Knight [family PROTEACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Mimetes intermedia
  • Diastella serpyllifolia
  • Diastella divaricata

Flora

Entry for DIASTELLA serpyllifolia Knight [family PROTEACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 502, (1912) Author: By J. HUTCHINSON, E. P. PHILLIPS and O. STAPF.
Names
DIASTELLA serpyllifolia Knight [family PROTEACEAE], Prot. 62
DIASTELLA vacciniifolia Knight [family PROTEACEAE], Prot. 63.
Leucadendron divaricatum Berg. [family PROTEACEAE], in Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. 1766, 324; Berg. Descr. Pl. Cap. 19.
Protea divaricata Linn. [family PROTEACEAE], Mant. 194; Thunb. Diss. Prot. 58; Murr. Syst. Veg. ed. xiv. 142; Lam. Ill. i. 235; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 533; Poir. Encycl. v. 643; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 140.
Mimetes divaricata R. Br. [family PROTEACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 111; Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 383; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 265.
Mimetes parviflora Klotzsch [family PROTEACEAE], in Krauss, Beitr. Fl. Capund Natal. 141; Klotzsch in Flora, 1845, 77.
Mimetes intermedia Buek ex Meisn. [family PROTEACEAE], in DC. Prodr. xiv. 265.
Information
a decumbent shrub, 3–4 ft. high; branches pilose; leaves 2–9 lin. long, 1 1/2–3 lin. broad, suborbicular, elliptic, oblong or lanceolate, obtuse, rounded or narrowed to the base, flat, pilose, ciliate; heads sessile, 3–5 lin. long, many-flowered, terminal, solitary or very rarely 3-nate at the ends of the branches; involucral bracts 2–3-seriate, 2 1/2–5 lin. long, oblong, linear to ovate, obtuse or acuminate, pubescent, ciliate; perianth-segments 2 3/4–3 1/2 lin. long, linear, villous; limb 1/2– 3/4 lin. long, oblong-linear, subobtuse, shortly villous; anthers subsessile, 1/2 lin. long; filament fused with the perianth; apical gland lanceolate, 1/10– 1/8 lin. long; ovary 1/4– 1/3 lin. long, pubescent; style 2 3/4–3 1/2 lin. long, filiform, pubescent in the lower half or near the base; stigma 1/6– 1/4 lin. long, cylindric, obtuse. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Cape Div.; mountains near Kalk Bay, Bolus, 2906! near Cape Town, Niven, 45! Bolus! Klaver Vley, Wolley-Dod, 300! near Simons Town, Wright! Jameson! Pappe! Milne, 137! MacGillivray, 635! Bolus in Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr. 303! Schlechter, 312! Red Hill, Wolley-Dod, 1833! Jameson! Smitswinkel Bay, Bolus in Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr. 302! Wolley-Dod, 2737! Phillips, 519! False Bay, Robertson! Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek, Pappe! Zeyher, 3694! Galpin, 4477!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Nelson! Masson! Thunberg! Brown! Mund! Gueinzius!
Notes
This appears to be an extremely variable species. In Zeyher, 3694 (Mimetes intermedia, Buek), the leaves are oblong and attenuated at the base and the involucral bracts very acuminate, whilst in a specimen of typical Mimetes divaricata, R. Br. (Wolley-Dod, 1833), the leaves are suborbicular, rounded at the base and the involucral bracts oblong and very obtuse. Between these two forms, however, almost every intermediate stage occurs.—E. P. P.

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