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Pachycarpus campanulatus

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Filed as Pachycarpus campanulatus (Harv.) N.E.Br. [family APOCYNACEAE]
Pachycarpus campanulatus (Harv.) N.E.Br. var. sutherlandii N.E.Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Filed as Pachycarpus campanulatus (Harv.) N.E.Br. [family APOCYNACEAE]
Pachycarpus campanulatus (Harv.) N.E.Br. var. sutherlandii N.E.Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Type of Pachycarpus gerrardi N.E.Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Isotype of Pachycarpus campanulatus (Harv.) N.E.Br. var. sutherlandii N.E.Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Pachycarpus campanulatus (Harv.) N.E.Br.
Pachycarpus campanulatus (Harv.) N.E.Br. var. campanulatus [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Isotype of Gomphocarpus gerrardii Harv. [family APOCYNACEAE]
Isotype of Pachycarpus campanulatus (Harv.) N.E.Br. var. sutherlandii N.E.Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Pachycarpus campanulatus (Harv.) N.E.Br. var. sutherlandii N.E.Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Filed as Pachycarpus campanulatus (Harv.) N.E.Br. [family APOCYNACEAE]
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Pachycarpus campanulatus (Harv.) N.E.Br. [family APOCYNACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for PACHYCARPUS campanulatus N. E. Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
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Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 518, (1909) Author: By N. E. BROWN.
Names
PACHYCARPUS campanulatus N. E. Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Gomphocarpus campanulatus Harv. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Thes. Cap. i. 61, t. 97.
Asclepias linearis Schlechter [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1896, 453, partly.
Asclepias tenuiflora Schlechter [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. Beibl. 54, 9 partly.
Asclepias tenuifolia Schlechter [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], ex Ind. Kew. Suppl. ii. 19, partly.
Information
“root tuberous” (Sanderson); stem 2/3–2 ft. high, simple, thinly and somewhat harshly pubescent or scaberulous; leaves suberect, 3–6 in. long, 1 1/3–4 1/2 lin. broad, linear, acute, tapering or rounded into the very short petiole at the base, with revolute margins, harshly pubescent or more or less scabrous above and on the margins and midrib beneath; umbel solitary, terminal, nodding, 3–5-flowered; peduncle 3/4–1 1/4 in. long, pubescent or subscabrous-pubescent, as are also the pedicels, bracts and calyx; pedicels 3/4–1 1/2 in. long; bracts 6–8 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, deciduous; sepals 5–9 lin. long, 2–3 lin. broad, lanceolate, acute; corolla globose, not lobed beyond the middle, 1 1/4–2 in. in diam., somewhat coarsely pubescent and usually purplish outside in dried flowers, but according to a drawing at Kew dull green, glabrous and apparently whitish or greenish-white inside, “corolla yellow” and “yellow-green” (Wood); united part 3/4–1 in. long; lobes 7–13 lin. long and as much in breadth, roundish-ovate, subacute, incurved, with overlapping margins, perhaps sometimes recurved or spreading at the tips; corona-lobes arising 1–1 1/2 lin. up the staminal column, horizontally spreading, 3 1/2–7 1/2 lin. long, linear or linear-lanceolate, obtuse, with a pair of erect obliquely deltoid wing-like keels at their base 1 1/2–2 lin. high, reaching to the base of the anther-appendages, dark purple-brown, with the keels paler; staminal column 3–5 lin. high; anther-appendages 1 1/2–2 lin. long, oblong, obtuse, with reflexed sides, erect, with their tips exceeding and inflexed over the margin of the crater-like 5-crenate style-apex. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Var. β: King Williamstown Div.; near Keiroad Station, Krook, 801 (ex Schlechter).EASTERN REGION Griqualand East; Enshlenzi Mountain, near Fort William, 2500 ft., Tyson, 3132! Natal; near Durban, Sanderson! Dargle Farm, Mrs. Fannin, 5! Inanda, Wood, 79! 1326! hills near Charlestown, Wood, 5151 mixed with var. β! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 2161! 2164! Sutherland! Var. β: Tembuland; Engcobo Mountain, 4500 ft., Bolus, 10552! Griqualand East; Mount Frere, Schlechter, 6412! Krook, 798! Natal; Mohlamba Range, 5000–6000 ft., Sutherland! Biggars Berg, Gerrard, 1298!KALAHARI REGION Var. β: Orange River Colony, Cooper, 2732! 2734! Basutoland, Cooper, 936! 2731! Transvaal; Macmac, Mudd! Houtbosch, Rehmann, 5871! Saddleback Mountain, near Barberton, Galpin, 1366, and Elands River Mountain, Schlechter, 3999 (ex Schlechter); Belfast, Burtt Davy, 1285! near Vlakfontein Beacon, Burtt Davy, 2967! near Spitz Kop, Wilms, 942! Graskop, near Pilgrims, Burtt Davy, 1463!
Notes
The variety Sutherlandi is the plant that has hitherto been mistaken for Gomphocarpus linearis of Dietrich, and of Decaisne, from which it is readily distinguished by the very different corona-lobes and anther-appendages. It only appears to differ from typical P. campanulatus in its much smaller corolla and shorter corona-lobes, for although the specimens with the smallest flowers (Sutherland, Cooper, 936, 2374, &c.) seem quite distinct in appearance, other specimens (Schlechter, 6412, Burtt Davy, 1285, 2967, &c.) with larger flowers seem to connect it with typical P. campanulatus. In the process of drying, the globose form of the corolla of this and allied species is usually altered so that it appears to be broadly cup-shaped.

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