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Phaylopsis longifolia

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Name

Identification
Phaylopsis longifolia Sims [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on Sheet, Aetheilema imbricatum (Forssk.) Spreng. [family ACANTHACEAE ] Verified by Bräuchler, C., 2012
Related name
  • Phaulopsis inaequalis
  • Aetheilema imbricatum
  • Phaylopsis longifolia

Flora

Entry for PHAYLOPSIS parviflora Willd. [family ACANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 1, (1912) Author: By C. B. CLARKE.
Names
PHAYLOPSIS parviflora Willd. [family ACANTHACEAE], Sp. Pl. iii. 342;—T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 26; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 417, in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. v. 83.
PHAYLOPSIS longifolia Sims [family ACANTHACEAE], in Bot. Mag. t. 2433.
Micranthus oppositifolius Wendl. [family ], Bot. Beobacht. 39; Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3B, 298, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 367.
Micranthus longifolius O. Kuntze [family ], Rev. Gen. 493.
Micranthus imbricatus O. Kuntze [family ], Rev. Gen. 493.
Ætheilema imbricatum R. Br. [family ], Prod. 478; Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 262 partly.
Ætheilema reniforme Nees [family ], in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 94, and in DC. Prod. xi. 261; Wight, Ic. Pl. t. 1533; Hochst. in Flora, 1845, 70.
Phaulopsis oppositifolius Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE], in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. zu ii.-iv. 305.
Phaulopsis longifolius Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE], in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. zu ii.-iv. 305.
Information
pubescent; stem 1–2 ft. long, branched; leaves up to 3 by 1 1/2 in. (some on the same stem only 1/2 by 1 in. long), acuminate at both ends, nearly entire; petiole up to 1 1/2 in. long; inflorescence 1–2 in. long, dense, strobilate; lower floral leaves 1/3 by 1/2 in., rounded, subtruncate; calyx 1/4– 1/3 in. long, hairy; 2 anticous segments linear-ligulate, acute; corolla 1/3 in. long, white or purplish; tube funnel-shaped at the top; ovary glabrous, sparingly glandular at the top; capsule 1/6– 1/4 in. long. null
Range
Also in India, Mascarene Isles and Tropical Africa.
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; in woods around Durban Bay, Krauss, 231! road-sides near Durban, Wood, 65! borders of woods near Durban, 150 ft., Wood in   MacOwan & Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 1338! Inanda, Wood, 152! and without precise locality, Grant! Cooper, 3040! Gerrard, 10 partly!
Notes
Phaylopsis longifolia, Sims (Bot. Mag. t. 2433), is figured from a Sierra Leone plant, and is identical with the West African examples accepted by all authors as P. parviflora.

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