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Plumbago auriculata

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Name

Identification
Plumbago auriculata Lam. [family PLUMBAGINACEAE ]
Related name
  • Plumbago auriculata
Common name
  • Cape leadwort, Flora of North America Vol. 5

Flora

Entry for PLUMBAGO capensis Thunb. [family PLUMBAGINACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 418, (1909) Author: By C. H. WRIGHT.
Names
PLUMBAGO capensis Thunb. [family PLUMBAGINACEAE], Prodr. 33;—Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 166; Bot. Mag. t. 2110; Bot. Reg. t. 417; Drège, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 133, 136; Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xii. 693.
PLUMBAGO auriculata Poir. [family PLUMBAGINACEAE], Encycl. ii. 270.
PLUMBAGO grandiflora Ten. [family PLUMBAGINACEAE], Cat. Hort. Neap. 1845, 91.
Plumbagidium auriculatum Spach [family ], Hist. Veg. Phan. x. 339, t. 149.
Information
stem woody, subscandent, striate; leaves entire, oblong or oblong-spathulate, obtuse or subacute, shortly mucronate, tapering downwards into a very short petiole, about 2 in. long and 3/4 in. wide, glabrous; spikes about 2 in. long; rhachis puberulous; bracteoles oblong, acute, half as long as the calyx; calyx 5 lin. long, pubescent, also bearing in the upper part glands on stalks nearly 1 lin. long; corolla pale blue; tube 1 1/4 in. long; limb 1 in. in diam.; lobes obovate, obtuse; anthers blue; capsule oblong-clavate, rounded above, tapering and pentagonal below. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div.; on the Bosch Berg, Burchell, 3182! 3192!COAST REGION Uitenhage Div.; Uitenhage, Burchell, 4406! Zeyher! Addo, Burke! Coega River, Pappe! Enon, under 500 ft., Drège! Zuurberg Range, 2000–3000 ft., Drège! and without precise locality, Zeyher, 568! Albany Div.; Howisons Port, near Grahamstown, MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 589! British Kaffraria, Cooper, 3046!EASTERN REGION Natal; Inanda, Wood, 333! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 1962! Sutherland!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Villette! Pappe!

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