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Reseda pruinosa

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Name

Identification
Reseda pruinosa Delile [family RESEDACEAE ] Isotype of Reseda muricata C.Presl [family RESEDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by S. Martin-Bravo,
Related name
  • Reseda gilgiana
  • Reseda schimperiana
  • Reseda lutea
  • Reseda schimperi
  • Reseda muricata
  • Reseda abyssinica
  • Reseda bracteata
  • Reseda tomentosa
  • Reseda pruinosa

Flora

Entry for RESEDA pruinosa Del. [family RESEDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 102, (1868) Author: (by Prof. Oliver).
Names
RESEDA pruinosa Del. [family RESEDACEAE], Fl. Ægypt. 15, var.
RESEDA amblyocarpa Fresen. [family RESEDACEAE], in Mus. Senck. ii. 108.
RESEDA Quartiniana Rich. [family RESEDACEAE], Fl. Abyss. i. 13.
? RESEDA lurida Muell. [family ], (Arg. Mém. Réséd. 152.)
Information
An erect or ascending biennial or perennial herb, 1 to a few feet in height, woody below, with minutely pruinose-puberulous or papillose branches, terminating in long, many-flowered, spicate racemes. Leaves entire or 3-fid, narrow-lanceolate or oval or with linear-lanceolate segments, tapering below into a rather long petiole, above to an acute or subacute point, minutely scabrid-puberulous on the midrib beneath or glabrous. Bracts caducous. Capsules obovate-oblong. Seeds minute reniform, minutely punctate under a lens.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Schimper! and others;Nubia Nile Land Schweinfurth.
Notes
Notwithstanding Dr. Anderson's remarks, I do not think R. amblyocarpa can be maintained as specifically distinct from R. pruinosa. There is no difference as to the seeds between the Abyssinian and N.W. Indian forms, though in the Aden plant, which was specially under Dr. Anderson's notice, they are very small, black, and rough with minute points. The leaves of our only Abyssinian specimen are entire, though Fresenius describes them as mostly 3-fid. Most of the leaves are 3-fid in the ordinary state of R. pruinosa. For further synonymy see Anderson in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. Suppl. i. 6.

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