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Nycterinia capensis

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Identification
Zaluzianskya capensis (L.) Walp. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name); Zaluzianskya capensis (L.) Walp. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] Nycterinia capensis (L.) Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ]
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  • Nycterinia capensis
  • Zaluzianskya capensis

Flora

Entry for ZALUZIANSKYA capensis Walp. [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
ZALUZIANSKYA capensis Walp. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Repert. iii. 307
Erinus capensis Linn. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Mant. alt. 252. (Cf.)
Erinus æthiopicus Thunb. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Prodr. 102, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 473.
Nycterinia capensis Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 370, and in DC. Prodr. x. 349; Krauss in Flora, 1844, 834.
Erinus lychnideus Linn. f. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Suppl. 287. (Cf.)
Information
root fibrous, annual; stems erect or ascending, herbaceous or rarely rather shrubby towards the base, branched from the base, 4–20 in. high, hard, rather slender, wiry; branches more or less shaggy or nearly glabrous, leafy, alternate or opposite, dusky; leaves opposite or scattered and alternate, sometimes several together subfasciculate, unequal, linear or the lower somewhat lanceolate, obtuse, somewhat or scarcely narrowed towards the base, sessile or subpetiolate, entire or sparingly toothed, 1/2–2 in. long, 1-nerved, the lower crowded and spreading; the floral usually somewhat lanceolate, ciliate, entire or sparingly toothed, 2/5–1 in. long; spikes oblong, short or somewhat elongated, few- or many-flowered; flowers alternate, sessile, 1–1 3/4 in. long; calyx narrow, 1/3– 1/2 in. long, deeply bilabiate; segments ciliate, shortly toothed at the apex; corolla-tube slender, glandular-puberulous outside; limb spreading, 1/3– 5/8 in. in diam., purplish or brownish outside, white within; segments obovate-bifid; stamens didynamous, upper pair just exserted; style exserted or about as long as the corolla-tube; capsule glabrous, 2/5– 1/2 in. long. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION , between 4000 and 5000 ft.: Graaff Reinet Div.! Cave mountain, Bolus, 53! Albert Div.; New Hantam, Drège, 7896! VAR. γ: Murraysburg Div.; mountain slopes, Tyson, 208!COAST REGION , ascending from 50 to 1900 ft.: Cape Div.; various places around Cape Town, Wolley Dod, 1200! Krauss, 1638! Bolus, 7229! Knysna Div.; Plettenberg Bay, Bowie! Zitzikamma, Krauss, 1638. Uitenhage Div.; Grassrug, Zeyher! Port Elizabeth Div.; Aloga Bay, Cooper, 2852! 2853! Albany Div.; near Grahamstown, MacOwan, 83, partly! Howisons Port, Hutton! Queenstown Div.; near Queenstown, Galpin, 1993! Cooper, 1842! 2850! VAR. α: Cape Div.: hills near Simonstown, Wolley Dod, 1410! Knysna Div.; Vlugt valley, Bolus, 2410! Alexandria Div.; Zuur Berg, Cooper, 2849! Albany Div.; Cooper, 3122! Bathurst Div.; between Bushmans River and Karega River, Ecklon, 216! VAR. β: Cape Div.; sand dunes (Ecklon & Zeyher?), 172! Caledon Div.; Zwart Berg, Ecklon! VAR. δ: Cape Div.; Chapmans Bay, Wolley Dod, 1553! Knysna Div.; near Groene Valley, Burchell, 5660! Bathurst Div.; between Theopolis and Port Alfred, Burchell, 3917! Queenstown Div., Cooper, 372! British Kaffraria, Cooper, 83!EASTERN REGION , between 3000 and 6000 ft.: Natal; hill at Izingolweni, Wood, 3038! between the Biggarsberg and Buffalo River, Gerrard, 2074! near Albert, Wood, 3490! and without precise locality, Cooper, 2846! Griqualand East; on Mountains, Tyson, 1271! Eastern districts, MacOwan, 254! Hutton! VAR. δ: Natal; near the Tugela River, Wood, 3488! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 1990!KALAHARI REGION , between 4000 and 7000 ft.: Orange River Colony; Mont aux Sources, Flanagan in Herb. Bolus, 8221! Besters Vlei, Bolus, 8220! and without precise locality, Cooper, 999! 2841! 2844! Basutoland, Cooper, 2843! VAR. δ: Transvaal, Houtbosch, Rehmann, 6002!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg! Masson! Oldenburg, 1143! Herb. Burmann! VAR. δ: cultivated specimens!WESTERN REGION , VAR. δ: Little Namaqualand; hills near Mierenkasteel, 2000 ft., Drège, 7899!
Notes
Walpers, l.c., gives 4 varieties, as follows:— VAR. α, hirsuta; branches rather shaggy, leaves hirsute on both faces. VAR. β, glabriuscula; branches and leaves nearly glabrous. VAR. γ, foliosa; leaves smaller and crowded, spike few-flowered. Nycterinia capensis, γ foliosa, Drège, Cat. Pl. Exsicc. Afr. Aust. 3. VAR. δ, tenuifolia; leaves narrowly linear, nearly glabrous. Nycterinia capensis, δ tenuifolia, Drège, l.c.

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