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Oligomeris glaucescens

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Identification
Oligomeris glaucescens Cambess. [family RESEDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Cambessèdes,
Related name
  • Oligomeris dregeana
  • Oligomeris glaucescens
  • Oligomeris dipetala
  • Reseda dregeana
  • Resedella dregeana
  • Reseda dipetala
  • Reseda subulata

Flora

Entry for OLIGOMERIS glaucescens Camb. [family RESEDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 102, (1868) Author: (by Prof. Oliver).
Names
OLIGOMERIS glaucescens Camb. [family RESEDACEAE], in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 24. t. 25.
OLIGOMERIS subulata Webb [family RESEDACEAE], Frag. Fl. Æthiop. 26 (Reseda, Delile).
OLIGOMERIS dispersa Muell. [family RESEDACEAE], Réséd. 214.
Information
An erect or decumbent, glabrous, more or less glaucous herb; the stem sometimes with a few minute scattered setæ above. Leaves fasciculate, narrow-linear, entire. Flowers small, sessile or subsessile, in rather loose, elongate, terminal spikes. Bracts minute, alternating with the two smaller anterior sepals. Stamens 3 (or 2?), unilateral. Ovary 8-sulcate below, abruptly narrowed into the 4 erect, connate styles.
Range
Occurs in the Atlantic islands, and through Egypt to Persia and N.W. India.
Distribution
Nubia Nile Land Bromfield!
Notes
For extended synonymy see Mueller's ‘Monographie des Résédacées,’ p. 214.

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