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Nemesia foetens

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Identification
Nemesia foetens Vent. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for Nemesia fruticans Thunb. Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 8, Part 2, (1990) Author: D. Philcox
Names
Nemesia fruticans Thunb. Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Hook., Comp. Bot. Mag. 2: 22 (1836); in DC., Prodr. 10: 263 (1846). Type from S. Africa.
Antirrhinum fruticans Thunb. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Prodr. Pl. Cap.: 105 (1800); in Fl. Cap., ed. Schultes: 483 (1823). —Benth. in DC., Prodr. 10: 263 (1846). Type as above.
Antirrhinum capense Thunb. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Prodr. Pl. Cap.: 105 (1800) non Burm. f., 1768 nom. illegit.
Nemesia foetens Vent. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Jard. Malm. 1: sub t. 41 (1803). Type from S. Africa.
Linaria fruticans Thunb. Spreng. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Syst. Veg. 2: 789 (1825). Type as for Nemesia fruticans.
Linaria capensis Spreng. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Syst. Veg. 2: 796 (1825). Type as for Antirrhinum capense Thunb.
Nemesia divergens Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Hook., Comp. Bot. Mag. 2: 22 (1836). Type from S. Africa.
Nemesia capensis Spreng. Kuntze [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Rev. Gen. Pl. 3: 237 (1898). Type as for Linaria capensis.
Nemesia fruticans var. divergens Benth. Norlindh [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Bot. Not. 1951, 2: 97 (1951). Type as for Nemesia divergens.
Information
Erect annual herb to 40 cm. tall, branched, sometimes profusely, from base. Stem and branches quadrangular, glabrous or rarely sparsely glandular, especially immediately within inflorescence. Leaves 1.5–3 x 0.15–0.5 cm., sessile to shortly petiolate, narrowly lanceolate, apex obtuse, rounded to cuneate at base, entire to laxly serrate-dentate, glabrous. Racemes 2–5 cm. long, up to 17 cm. long in fruit. Bracts 2–3 mm. long, broadly lanceolate. Pedicels (2.5–4)9–13 mm. long, laxly glandular-pubescent. Calyx 2.5–3 mm. long, lobes 0.6–1.5 mm. wide, lanceolate-oblong, obtuse, shortly glandular-pubescent. Corolla pale pink or mauve or white, throat orange-yellow; upper lip c. 6 mm. long; spur 2–3.4 mm. long, cylindrical, straight. Capsule (5)9–10.5 x (3.6)4.8–7 mm., very broadly oblong, ovate, subtruncate at apex, very slightly emarginate, slightly bicornute, more markedly so when young.
Habitat
Stream or riverbank vegetation and roadsides.
Distribution
Zimbabwe S Gwanda Distr., banks of Umzingwane R., fl. & fr. 18.xii.1956, Davies 2371 (PRE; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Nyanga (Inyanga) Distr., Rhodes Nyanga Estate, c. 1800–2100 m., fl. & fr. 16–20.xi.1931, Brain 6948 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe C Harare Distr., c. 1400 m., fl. & fr. 8.v.1927, Eyles 4943 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe W Bulawayo Distr., Hillside, c. 1400 m., fl. & fr. viii.1903, Eyles 1229 (PRE; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
Namibia
S. Africa
Notes
One specimen is tentatively recorded here from Botswana, (Mogg 8031 (PRE)), but as this is only in flower, and fruits are needed for a more certain determination, it has not been included in the above distribution.

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