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Oxygonum canescens

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Name

Identification
Oxygonum dregeanum Meisn. [family POLYGONACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Graham, R. A., Oxygonum canescens Sond. [family POLYGONACEAE ] Ceratogonum unrecorded unrecorded [family POLYGONACEAE ]
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  • Oxygonum canescens
  • Ceratogonum unrecorded
  • Oxygonum dregeanum

Flora

Entry for OXYGONUM canescens Sond. [family POLYGONACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 459, (1912) Author: By C. H. WRIGHT.
Names
OXYGONUM canescens Sond. [family POLYGONACEAE], in Linnæa, xxiii. 100;—Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 38.
Information
stem about 6 in. high, much-branched, woody; branches angular, clothed with downward pointing white hairs; leaves pinnately or bipinnately lobed, hairy like the branches; lobes linear, hair-pointed; ochreæ with setaceous teeth from a triangular base; racemes 2–3 in. long, interrupted; flowers solitary; pedicels eglandular; perianth yellow, 2 1/2 lin. long; segments oblong, acute; filaments more slender than in O. Zeyheri, with a tuft of hairs near the base; styles 3, as long as the stamens; ovary pubescent, with 3 basal horns. null
Distribution
KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Marabastadt, Nelson, 118! Rustenburg, Collins, 46! Aapies River, Zeyher, 1451a, Burke!
Notes
There are also specimens at Kew marked “Grahamstown, Atherstone,” but there is doubt as to the correctness of this labelling.

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