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Mimulus gracilis

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Name

Identification
Mimulus gracilis R.Br. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Mimulus uvedaliae
  • Mimulus angustifolius
  • Mimulus linearis
  • Mimulus gracilis
  • Uvedalia linearis
Common name
  • monkey flower (Zimbabwe, Chase)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5

Flora

Entry for MIMULUS gracilis R. Br. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 121, (1904) Author: By W. P. HIERN, F.R.S.
Names
MIMULUS gracilis R. Br. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Prodr. 439;—Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 369.
MIMULUS strictus Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Wall. Cat. n. 3918, and Scroph. Indic. 28; Drège, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 143, 202.
MIMULUS angustifolius Hochst. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Herb. Schimp. Abyss. iii. n. 1629, and ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 119; O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. iii. ii. 236.
Information
a perennial herb, branched about the base, erect, ascending or decumbent, leafy, glabrous, shining, 6–20 in. high; branches tetragonal; leaves linear-oval or lanceolate, obtusely narrowed at the apex, subcordate or obtuse, or the lower wedge-shaped at the sessile or subsessile or shortly petiolate base, nearly entire or repand or denticulate, 1/2–2 1/2 in. long, 1/12– 3/5 in. broad; flowers solitary in each axil, rather numerous, about 2/5 in. long; peduncles rather slender, mostly 1/2–1 1/2 in. long; calyx about 1/4 in. long in flower, 1/3– 2/5 in. long in fruit; teeth short, deltoid, acute; corolla white or pink and white or white and delicately spotted with yellow; capsule oval, about 1/4 in. long. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa, India and Australia.
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div.; near Somerset East, MacOwan, 1501! Bowker! Graaff Reinet Div.; Cave Mountain, Bolus, 529! Albert Div.; Molteno, Kuntze!COAST REGION Albany Div.; Newyears River, MacOwan! King Williamstown Div.; by the Kachu (Yellowwood) River, Drège, 4022! Queenstown Div.; Shilob, Baur, 824! Ecklon! Stockenstrom Div.; Kat Berg, Scully, 314! British Kaffraria, Cooper, 355!EASTERN REGION Natal; Mohlamba Range, Sutherland! Umhlanga, Wood, 1366! Weenen County, Wood in MacOwan, Herb. Aust.-Afr., 1506! between Pietermaritzburg and Greytown, Wilms, 2176! Ladysmith, Kuntze.KALAHARI REGION Orange River Colony, Cooper, 896! 2864! Barrett Hamilton! Transvaal; Houtbosch, Rehmann, 5983! near Lydenburg, Wilms, 1085!

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