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Monopsis gracilis

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Name

Identification
Monopsis conspicua Salisb. [family CAMPANULACEAE ] Monopsis debilis C.Presl [family CAMPANULACEAE ] (stored under name); Monopsis gracilis A.DC. [family CAMPANULACEAE ]
Related name
  • Monopsis gracilis
  • Monopsis conspicua
  • Monopsis debilis

Flora

Entry for MONOPSIS campanulata Sond. [family CAMPANULACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 3, page 530, (1894) Author: (By W. SONDER).
Names
MONOPSIS campanulata Sond. [family CAMPANULACEAE]
MONOPSIS conspicua Presl var. gracilis [family CAMPANULACEAE], ! Comm. pl. Drege, p. 284.
MONOPSIS gracilis A. DC. [family CAMPANULACEAE], ! l. c. p. 352.
Lobelia campanulata Lam. [family CAMPANULACEAE], ! dict. 3. p. 588.
Information
stem branched, glabrous; leaves linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, remotely serrate, with cartilaginous margins; pedicels erect, subpilose, 2–4-times longer than the leaf; calyx-tube hemispherical, hispid, shorter than the linear, acuminate lobes; tube of corolla equalling the calyx, with roundish mucronulate lobes; capsule roundish. In habit and size exactly M. conspicua, Sal. and only differing by the capsule, roundish at the base. Lower leaves ovate-lanceolate, entire or a few toothed cauline leaves 6–8 lines long, 1–2 lines wide. Calyx-lobes soon reflexed, 2 lines long. Tube of corolla 4 lines long, limb rotate. Capsule the size of a small pea.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Draakensteenbergen, 2–300 ft., Drege; Modderfontyn, Namaqualand, V. Schlicht. Rev. H. Whitehead. Cape, Vaillant, Herb. Lamark. Ort. (Herb. Roeper., D., Sd.)

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