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Priestleya umbellifera

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Name

Identification
Priestleya umbellifera Eckl. & Zeyh. [family FABACEAE ]
Related name
  • Priestleya umbellifera

Flora

Entry for PRIESTLEYA angustifolia Eck. & Zey. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
PRIESTLEYA angustifolia Eck. & Zey. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], ! En. No. 1222;—Benth. Lond. Journ. 2. p. 444.
PRIESTLEYA umbellifera E. M. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], Comm. p. 17.
PRIESTLEYA lævigata E. & Z. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], No. 1221. (non Benth.)
Borbonia villosa Thunb. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], ! Fl. Cap. p. 560.
Information
branches villous; leaves narrow-lanceolate, rigid, the young ones sparsely villous, the older glabrous, pungent-mucronate, rather concave, one-nerved; flowers on hairy pedicels, in a short, terminal, headlike raceme; bracts lanceolate, hairy; calyx hairy, the upper segments lanceolate or deltoid-acuminate, the lowest cuspidate, 1 1/2 as long as the rest. A small shrub, 10–12 inches high, erect or ascending, chiefly branched from the base. Leaves 1–1 1/4 inch long, 1–2 lines wide, sometimes with obscure lateral nerves. Flowers 6–10, in a globose cluster.—Resembles P. graminifolia in aspect, but is more hairy, with a different calyx. Pods softly villous.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Hott. Holland and Klynriverberg, E. & Z.! Capetown range, W.H.H. (Hb. Thb. Bth., Hk., Sd., D.)

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