Compilation
Protea prostrata
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Name
Identification
Protea prostrata Thunb. [family PROTEACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Leucospermum not on sheet Not on sheet [family PROTEACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Leucospermum hypophyllum (Thunb.) R.Br. [family PROTEACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Leucadendron tortum R.Br. [family PROTEACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Leucospermum prostratum (Thunb.) Stapf [family PROTEACEAE ] Verified by Stapf, O.,
Related name
- Protea prostrata
- Leucospermum prostratum
- Leucadendron tortum
- Leucospermum hypophyllum
- Leucospermum not on sheet
Flora
Entry for LEUCOSPERMUM prostratum Stapf [family PROTEACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 502, (1912) Author: By J. HUTCHINSON, E. P. PHILLIPS and O. STAPF.
Names
LEUCOSPERMUM prostratum Stapf [family PROTEACEAE]
LEUCOSPERMUM diffusum Meisn. [family PROTEACEAE], in DC. Prodr. xiv. 259, partly, not of R. Br.
Protea prostrata Thunb. [family PROTEACEAE], Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 133; Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. iii. 355; R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 221; Meisn. l.c. 252.
Protea cinerea Ait. [family PROTEACEAE], Hort. Kew. ed. 1, i. 127; Poir. Encycl. v. 651.
Leucadendron? prostratum Meisn. [family ], l.c. 227.
Information
an apparently trailing low shrub; branches slender, villous or hirsute, at length glabrescent; leaves loosely scattered on decumbent shoots, all turned skywards, linear, acute or subacute, rarely obtuse, hardly narrowed at the base, 3/4–1 3/4 in. long, 1/2–2 lin. broad, more or less distinctly veined in the broader leaves, villous when young, then loosely pubescent; heads solitary or 2-nate, terminal, subterminal or overtopped and apparently lateral, peduncled, hemispherical, very many-flowered and compact, 5–7 lin. long, about 9 lin. across, rounded at the base, with a definite involucre of imbricate barren bracts; peduncle slender, 5–15 lin. long, tomentose, bearing scattered lanceolate, often reflexed, tomentose bracts; receptacle convex, very low; involucral bracts lanceolate, acute or acuminate, up to 3 lin. long, finely tomentose; floral bracts obovate-cuneate, abruptly acuminate or apiculate, 2 1/2–3 lin. long, densely tomentose; adult flower-bud 6–7 lin. long; perianth-tube tapering downwards, 3 1/2 lin. long, pubescent from the middle upwards; claws more or less equal and free with recurved tips, 2 lin. long, villous or tomentose; limbs deflexed, oblong, subacute, 1 lin. long, tomentose; anthers sessile, oblong, apiculate, 3/4 lin. long; hypogynous scales filiform, 1/2 lin. long; ovary oblong, 1/3 lin. long, pubescent, surrounded by hairs, 3/4 lin. long; style 6–7 lin. long, finely filiform, glabrous; stigma subclavate or cylindric, subobtuse, 1/2 lin. long, grooved; fruit ellipsoid, grey, including the short whitish conical beak 3 1/2 lin. long, loosely pubescent. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Caledon Div.; Diep Gat, Galpin, 4465! Zwart Berg, near Caledon, Bowie! Templeman in MacOwan, Herb. Austr.-Afr. 1641! Bot River, Schlechter, 9446, partly! Houw Hoek, Schlechter, 5513! Bowie! mountains near Hemel and Aarde, Zeyher, 3686! Bredasdorp Div.; mountains near Elim, Bolus, 7872! 8587! Schlechter, 7640!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg! Thom, 933! Ludwig! without locality, Ecklon & Zeyher, 6!