Isotype of Polygala capillarisNot on sheet. [family POLYGALACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet., Polygala capillarisE.Mey. [family POLYGALACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
Polygala tukpwoensis
Polygala spicata
Polygala paludosa
Polygala brownei
Polygala schlechteri
Polygala unrecorded
Polygala filicaulis
Polygala sansibarensis
Polygala capillaris
Polygala perrottetiana
Polygala durandi
Polygala paniculata
Polygala bukobensis
Polygala micrantha
Polygala clarkeana
Polygala lecardii
Flora
Entry for POLYGALA capillaris E. Mey. [family POLYGALACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 79, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
POLYGALA capillarisE. Mey. [family POLYGALACEAE], ! in Herb. Drege
Information
herbaceous, erect, sub-simple, glabrous, with angular stems; leaves few and distant, linear-subulate, acute, or mucronate; racemes terminal, spike-like, elongating, many-flowered; pedicels much shorter than the minute flowers; bracts subulate, deciduous; alæ oval, obtuse, 3-nerved, ant. sepals narrow-oblong, subacute; keel subglobose, crested, shorter than the ovate-oblong petals; capsule oval-orbicular. A very slender annual (?), 2–6 or 12 inches high, its virgate branches ending in a long dense raceme of minute, subsessile, whitish flowers. The keel has a fleshy crest cut into four or eight lobes.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Between the Omsamculo and Omcomas, in boggy spots, under 500 feet. Drege! Macallisberg, Burke and Zeyher! (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.).
