Entry for MYOSOTIS afropalustris C. H. Wright [family BORAGINACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 2, (1904) Author: By C. H. WRIGHT.
Names
MYOSOTIS afropalustrisC. H. Wright [family BORAGINACEAE]
Information
stem erect, about 2 ft. high, hispid with deflexed hairs; lower leaves elliptic-lanceolate, much attenuate below, upper ovate, rounded at the base, hispid with usually bulbous-based hairs on both surfaces; inflorescence much-branched; calyx 1–1 1/2 lin. long, enlarging in fruit, with adpressed curved (but not hooked) hairs outside; lobes lanceolate, 3-nerved; corolla blue, 1 1/2 lin. in diam.; tube about as long as the calyx; lobes shortly oblong or suborbicular, obtuse; throat-scales slightly bilobed, yellow, pubescent; stamens inserted near the top of the corolla-tube; anthers oblong; connective produced above into an obtuse appendage; style as long as the corolla-tube; nutlets dorsally compressed, smooth. null
