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Retzia capensis

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Name

Identification
Retzia capensis Thunb. [family STILBACEAE ]
Related name
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Flora

Entry for RETZIA capensis Thunb. [family RETZIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 87, (1904) Author: By C. H. WRIGHT.
Names
RETZIA capensis Thunb. [family RETZIACEAE], in Acta Lund. i. 55, t. 1, fig. 2;—Nov. Gen. Pl. i. 4; Prodr. 34; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 167; Linn. f. Suppl. 18, 138; Lam. Ill. t. 103; Dunal in DC. Prod. xiii. i. 582; Schnitzl. Iconogr. t. 148** figs. 1–16.
Information
an erect, rigid, branched shrub, about 4 ft. high; young branches densely villous; leaves verticillate, sessile, linear-lanceolate, obtuse, entire, glabrous, imbricate, 1 3/4 in. long, 2–4 lin. wide; flowers several at the end of the stem, sessile, erect; bracts lanceolate from a broad concave base, keeled outside, acuminate, hirsute, 2 in. long, the inner smaller; corolla 1 in. long, 3 lin. in diam. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Stellenbosch Div.; sandy places on the summit of Hottentots Holland Mountain, Zeyher! Niven! Hottentots Holland, in pure sand, Bowie! Caledon Div.; on stony mountains near Lowrys Pass, 1200 ft., MacOwan, 2569! and in Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 245! tops of mountains between Lowrys Pass and Houw Hoek, Thunberg! Houw Hoek. 2500 ft., Bowie! Schlechter, 7434! between Palmiet River and Lowrys Pass, Burchell, 8187!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thom! Forsyth! Forster! Roxburgh!

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