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Nycterinia dentata

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Identification
Nycterinia dentata Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Zaluzianskya capensis (L.) Walp. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
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Flora

Entry for ZALUZIANSKYA dentata 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 dentata Walp. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Repert. iii. 307
Nycterinia dentata Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 370, and in DC. Prodr. x. 349.
Information
an annual or perennial herb, 1/3–1 1/2 ft. high; stems erect, ascending or decumbent, more or less branched, terete, softly and adpressedly pubescent above, rather slender, sometimes shrubby near the base; branches pubescent, leafy; leaves oblong-lanceolate, sublinear or narrowly elliptical, obtuse, rounded at the subpetiolate base, strongly dentate or subpinnatifid, more or less pubescent, 1/2–2 in. long, 1/8– 5/8 in. broad; floral leaves about 1/2– 3/4 in. long, oval-oblong or -lanceolate; petioles broad, the lower evident, the upper obsolete; spikes short or elongating, dense, several- or many-flowered, terminal; flowers 1 1/4–1 3/4 in. long, very sweet-scented by night; calyx 1/3– 1/2 in. long; corolla-tube slender, glandular-pubescent outside, glabrous within; limb about 1/2 in. in diam., milk-white within, dark brown-purple or blackish-violet outside, expanding at evening twilight and closing at morning twilight; lobes bifid; throat shortly hairy; stamens 4; capsule 3/8 in. long. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION , between 3500 and 4500 ft.: Beaufort West Div.; Nieuweveld, Drège, 7898! Murraysburg Div.; near Murraysburg, Tyson, 208!COAST REGION , ascending from 400 to 3000 ft.: Tulbagh Div.; Mitchells Pass, Schlechter, 8933! Paarl Div.; Paarl Mountain, Drège, 331 b! Cape Div.; mountains around Cape Town, Drège, 331 a! Harvey! Ecklon, 499! Burchell, 8463! Bolus, 4706! 8034! Wolley Dod, 145! Bunbury, 157! Zeyher, 3508! Rehmann, 1711! Simons Bay, Wright! Caledon Div.; Genadendal, Schlechter, 10309! hills near Caledon, Bolus, 9156! Komgha Div.; near Komgha, Flanagan, 1306! VAR. β: Caledon Div.; Zwart Berg, Ecklon, 87!

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