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Nycterinia coriacea

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Name

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

Flora

Entry for ZALUZIANSKYA maritima 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 maritima Walp. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Repert. iii. 307;—Krauss in Flora, 1844, 834.
Erinus maritimus Linn. f. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Suppl. 287; Thunb. Prodr. 102, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 474.
Nycterinia maritima Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 369, and in DC. Prodr. x. 348; O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. iii. ii. 238.
Nycterinia coriacea Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], ll. cc.
Nycterinia spathacea Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], ll. cc.
ZALUZIANSKYA coriacea Walp. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], l.c., 306.
ZALUZIANSKYA spathacea Walp. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], l.c., 306.
Nycterinia natalensis Bernhardi ex Krauss [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], l.c.; Harv. Thes. Cap. i. 37, t. 58.
ZALUZIANSKYA natalensis Bernhardi [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], l.c.
Information
a perennial herb, 2/3–3 ft. high; stems erect, decumbent or ascending, often somewhat shrubby below, simple or somewhat branched, terete, dusky, leafy, pubescent with pallid hairs or puberulous; before the flowering the plant is conspicuous by the rosulate tuft of radical leaves which are numerous and imbricate and afterwards become marcescent; lower stem-leaves narrowly-oval or obovate-oblong, obtuse, mostly narrowed towards the sessile or subsessile base, entire or dentate, thinly coriaceous or somewhat fleshy, more or less spreading, glabrous or puberulous, 1–3 in. long, 1/4– 3/5 in. broad, 3-nerved at the base; upper stem-leaves rather erect, often adpressed, gradually smaller, 1-nerved; floral leaves broadly lanceolate, amplexicaul, 1/2–1 in. long; spike dense, bracteate, usually elongating, terminal; flowers 1 1/2–2 in. long; calyx narrowly oblong, 2/5– 2/3 in. long, 1/12– 1/8 in. broad, deeply bilabiate, pubescent or glabrous but ciliolate; teeth small, ovate-deltoid, obtuse; corolla glandular-pubescent or -puberulous outside, marcescent, opening only at night or in dull weather, crimson or purple or brown outside, white or creamy inside, or white edged with rose; tube slender, 1/20– 1/15 in. broad, glabrous within; throat puberulous; limb patent, 1/2– 2/3 in. in diam.; lobes 5, obcordate or obovate, bifid; lobules emarginate or 2–3-cleft and rounded; stamens didynamous, glabrous, the longer pair with anthers just exserted; style glandular or glabrous, exserted; capsule hard, coriaceous, 3/8– 1/2 in. long. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION , between 4000 and 8000 ft.: Somerset Div.; Bosch Berg, MacOwan, 1632! Graaff Reinet Div.; Graaff Reinet, MacOwan, 53! Aliwal North Div.; top of the Witte Bergen, Drège, 7895!COAST REGION , ascending from the shore to 4000 ft.: Cape Div.; hills near Cape Town, Ecklon & Zeyher! Cape Flats near Princess Vley, MacOwan, Herb. Aust. Afr., 1932! Humansdorp Div.; sea-shore close to Zeekoe River, Thunberg! Stockenstrom Div.; summit of Elands Berg, Scully, 385! Kat Berg, Baur, 1106! Ecklon & Zeyher, 62! Cathcart Div.; near Klipplaats River, Ecklon & Zeyher! hills between Shiloh and Windvogel Berg, Ecklon & Zeyher, 239! Stutterheim Div.; mountain near Dohne, Flanagan, 1715! King Williamstown Div.; near Kachu (Yellowwood) River, Drège, 4740 a! VAR. β: Stockenstrom Div.; Kat Berg, Hatton! VAR. δ: Knysna Div.; sand hills at Plettenberg Bay, Burchell, 5318! Bathurst Div.; mouth of the Great Fish River, Burchell, 3726!EASTERN REGION , from 50 to 6000 ft.: Tembuland; Bazeia Mountain, Baur, 856! and in Herb. MacOwan, 1632! East Griqualand; near Clydesdale, Tyson in MacOwan & Bolus Herb. Norm., 863! Kwenkwe Mountain, near Gatberg, Bolus, 8756! Natal; Bushmans Rand Mountain, Krauss; Umzimkulu River, Drège! Olivers Hoek Pass, Wood, 3489! South Downs, Evans, 351! Inanda Wood, 26! Clairmont, Wood, 521! Howick and Charlestown, Kuntze, and without precise locality, Gueinzius! Sanderson, 46! Zululand; Ingoma (Ngome) Gerrard, 1209! VAR. β: Natal, Gerrard, 1991! Zululand; on dry plains, Gerrard, 1210! VAR. γ: Natal; near Van Reenen, Schlechter, 6988! VAR. ε: Griqualand East; mountains around Kokstad, Tyson, 1354! Natal; Clairmont, Wood, 6523! VAR. ζ: Griqualand East; Mount Currie, Tyson, 1733!KALAHARI REGION , between 2000 and 7000 ft.: Orange River Colony; Drakensberg, Cooper, 2848! Mont aux Sources, Flanagan, 2035! and without precise locality, Cooper, 891! 892! 893! 2848! 2851! Basutoland, Cooper, 2847! Transvaal; near the Crocodile River, Barber, 13! near Bronkhorst River, Wilms, 1039! Saddleback Range, Barberton, Galpin, 829! Macmac, Mudd! near Lydenburg, Atherstone! Wilms, 1038! Pilgrims Rest, Greenstock! VAR. γ: Basutoland; Drakensberg, Sanderson, 647! Orange River Colony, Cooper, 1089!

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