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Pharnaceum glomeratum

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Identification
Pharnaceum glomeratum L.f. [family MOLLUGINACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Pharnaceum mollugo L. [family MOLLUGINACEAE ] Verified by Smith, Sir James Edward,
Related name
  • Pharnaceum mollugo
  • Pharnaceum glomeratum
  • Adenogramma mollugo
  • Pharnaceum capense
  • Mollugo glomerata

Flora

Entry for ADENOGRAMMA galioides Fenzl [family ]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 120, (1894) Author: (By W. SONDER.)
Names
ADENOGRAMMA galioides Fenzl [family ], l. c. p. 277
Pharnaceum Mollugo Lin. [family MOLLUGINACEAE], Sp. p. 389. Berg. Fl. Cap. p. 79. Pluck. t. 331. f. 4.
Pharnaceum glomeratum L. fil. [family MOLLUGINACEAE], Sp. p. 185. Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 273.
Mollugo glomerata DC. [family MOLLUGINACEAE], Prod. 1. p. 392.
Information
leaves linear-subulate, or filiform; pedicels at length as long as the flowers or longer; calyx close-pressed on the ovoid or lenticular, obliquely acuminate, punctate capsule, persistent. Glaucous green, 2 inches to 1 1/2 feet long, very smooth, or rarely minutely downy below, with the aspect of a Galium. Stems ascending or diffuse, branched from the base; branches alternate, opposite or whorled, filiform; branchlets spreading, bearing the flowers. Lower internodes 2–3 inches long, upper shorter. Leaves 3–6 lines long, 1/2 line wide, 3–12 in a whorl; the uppermost very small, at length reflexed. Flowers copious, crowded in the axils, umbellate; pedicels unequal, 1/2–2 lines long. Sepals oblong, obtuse, white-edged, 1/2 line long. Capsule brown.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Cape Flats, and on mountain sides round Capetown, common. Zwartland; and near the Zwartkop's River and Assagaiskloof, Thunberg. E. & Z.! &c. Zey.! No. 620 and 2489. July-Nov. (Herb. Thunb., T.C.D., Sond.).

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