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Pterodiscus speciosus

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Pterodiscus speciosus Hook.
Pterodiscus speciosus Hook. [family PEDALIACEAE]
Isotype of Pterodiscus speciosus Hook. [family PEDALIACEAE]
Pterodiscus aurantiacus Welw. [family PEDALIACEAE]
Isotype of Pterodiscus speciosus Hook. [family PEDALIACEAE]
Pterodiscus elliottii Baker ex Stapf [family PEDALIACEAE]
Pterodiscus ngamicus N.E.Br. ex Stapf [family PEDALIACEAE]
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Identification
Pterodiscus speciosus Hook. [family PEDALIACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for PTERODISCUS speciosus Hook. [family PEDALIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 454, (1904) Author: By O. STAPF.
Names
PTERODISCUS speciosus Hook. [family PEDALIACEAE], in Bot. Mag. t. 4117;—Decne. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 5me ser. iii. 335.
Information
stem-base globose, up to 2 1/2 in. in diam., stem densely glandular like the whole plant when young, 3–6 in. high; leaves rather numerous, crowded in the upper part of the stem, linear to linear-oblong, irregularly crenate-dentate to shortly pinnate-laciniate, rarely subentire, 1 1/2–3 in. long, 2–6 lin. (in cultivated specimens to 9 lin.) wide, gradually narrowed into a short petiole; pedicels 2–2 1/2 lin. long, slender; calyx up to 2 lin. long; segments lanceolate, acuminate; corolla bright red-purple; tube symmetrical or almost so, gradually widened from above the base to the middle, then slightly constricted and widened again towards the mouth, 1 1/2–2 in. long; throat villous; limb 1 1/4–1 1/2 in. across; filaments bearded at the very base, otherwise glabrous, longer ones 5–6 lin. long; ovule 1 in each cell; fruit suborbicular, cordate at the base, not or obscurely emarginate at the apex, 1/2– 3/4 in. long, including the wings which are 1 1/2–2 1/2 lin. broad. null
Range
Extending into Tropical Africa as far as Rhodesia.
Distribution
KALAHARI REGION Griqualand West; Diamond Fields, Tack, 6! near the Vaal River, Shaw! Nelson, 169! Hebron, Nelson, 201! Orange River Colony; near Philippolis, Hutton, 4! near the Vet River, Burke, 133! Transvaal; Magalies Berg, Burke, 293! Zeyher, 1203! and without precise locality, Sanderson!

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