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Pentarrhinum insipidum

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Identification
Pentarrhinum insipidum E.Mey. [family APOCYNACEAE ]
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  • Pentarrhinum insipidum

Flora

Entry for PENTARRHINUM insipidum E. Meyer [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 518, (1909) Author: By N. E. BROWN.
Names
PENTARRHINUM insipidum E. Meyer [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Comm. 200;—Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 553; Harvey, Gen. S. Afr. Pl. ed. i. 224, and Thes. Cap. i. 7, t. 11; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 23; xx. Beibl. 51, 43; and xxi. Beibl. 54, 10; Journ. Bot. 1896, 456; K. Schum. in Engl. and Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 244, and in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 385; N. E. Br. in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. i. 378.
Cynanchum foliis cordato-sagittatis, &c. Burm. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], Rar. Afr. Pl. Dec. 2, 38, t. 16, fig. 2.
Information
stem twining, usually puberulous, sometimes glabrous; leaves spreading; petiole 1/2–2 in. long; blade 3/4–3 in. long, 1/2–2 in. broad, cordate-ovate, acute or acuminate, with broadly rounded basal lobes, glabrous on both sides; peduncles lateral at the nodes, 1–3 in. long, usually puberulous along one side, occasionally glabrous; corymbs 1–1 1/4 in. in diam., the axis elongating into a raceme as the flowers develop; bracts 1/2–1 lin. long, subulate, deciduous; pedicels 4–10 lin. long, puberulous; sepals 1–1 3/4 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, more or less puberulous, ciliate; corolla reflexed; lobes about 2 lin. long, 1–1 1/2 lin. broad, oblong, obtuse, glabrous on both sides, minutely ciliate, green or with the apical half more or less suffused with purple brown; corona-lobes about 1 lin. long, equalling the staminal column, obconic, thick and fleshy, narrowly channelled down the face, truncate, with a slightly projecting rim at the top, from whence a stout central subulate tooth is directed forwards over the tips of the anthers, cream-colour or yellow; follicles solitary, 1 1/2–2 3/4 in. long, about 3/4 in. thick, lanceolate, acute or acuminate into a beak, more or less tuberculate-echinate, puberulous or glabrous; seeds 3–3 1/2 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, ovate, plano-convex, with a thin wing-like margin, toothed at the broadest end, rugose or subreticulate on both sides with short irregular linear ridges, brown, glabrous. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa.
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Jansenville; by the Sundays River near Blue Krantz, Drège! Somerset Div.; near Somerset East, Atherstone, 155! Graaff Reinet Div.; near Graaff Reinet, Bolus, 186! along the Sundays River, Bowie! Burchell, 2878!COAST REGION Uitenhage Div.; near Enon, Drège, 2220! Baur, 1025! Alexander [Prior ]! Klein Winterhoek, 800 ft., Drège, 3432!EASTERN REGION Transkei; by the Bashee River, Bowker, 487! near Kentani, Miss Pegler, 288! Griqualand East; near Clydesdale, 2500 ft., Tyson, 2573! and in MacOwan and Bolus Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 1320! Natal; near Durban, McKen, 825! Wood, 266! 10167! Hilton, 3700 ft., Dimock Brown, 230! Tintern, 5000 ft., Evans! and without precise locality, Gueinzius! Gerrard, 319! 825! 1311! Wood, 1207! 10166!KALAHARI REGION Griqualand West; Vetberg Hills, Bowker, 26! Orange River Colony; Olifantsfontein, Rehmann, 3489! and without precise locality, Cooper, 2714! Transvaal; at the warm baths on McCord's farm, Burtt Davy, 1201! near Pretoria, Conrath, 1003! Rustenberg, Miss Nation, 127! Rooiplaat, Pienaars River, Miss Leendertz, 758!WESTERN REGION Great Namaqualand; Tiras, Schinz, 25!

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