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Riocreuxia polyantha

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Identification
Riocreuxia polyantha Schltr. [family APOCYNACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for RIOCREUXIA polyantha Schlechter [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 518, (1909) Author: By N. E. BROWN.
Names
RIOCREUXIA polyantha Schlechter [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1895, 272;—Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1897, 295.
RIOCREUXIA Burchellii K. Schum. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Engl. and Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 273.
RIOCREUXIA torulosa Schlechter [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 24.
Information
rootstock a cluster of numerous long narrow white tubers (Mrs. Barber); stem twining, unifariously puberulous; leaves herbaceous, varying from nearly glabrous to thinly puberulous on both sides; petiole 1–2 3/4 in. long; blade 1 1/4–6 in. long, 2/3–5 in. broad, cordate-ovate, acute or acuminate; cymes (including the 1 1/2–4 in.-long peduncle) 4–6 (or rarely up to 10) in. long, unifariously puberulous along the branches, otherwise glabrous in all parts, with 1–3 flowers at each node of the branches; pedicels 2/3–1 1/2 in. long; sepals 1–1 1/2 lin. long, subulate; corolla-tube 5–7 lin. long, cylindric, not or but slightly inflated at the base in dried flowers; lobes connivent-erect, connate at the tips, 4–6 lin. long, linear-attenuate; outer corona of 5 pairs of minute spreading teeth turned face to face or of 5 minute bifid concave lobes not more than 1/8 lin. long, alternating with the inner corona-lobes, which are 1/3– 1/2 lin. long, filiform-subulate, incurved-erect, applied to the backs of the anthers and longer or occasionally slightly shorter than them. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Aliwal North Div.; Elands Hoek near Aliwal North, 4550 ft., Bolus, 301! (10501! 10522!). Hopetown Div.; by the Orange River, Burchell, 2652!COAST REGION King Williamstown Div.; Gonubie Bridge, near Kei Road, 2000 ft., Flanagan, 2416! Albany Div.; between Blaauw Krantz and Kowie Poort, Burchell, 2668! Queenstown Div.; banks of the Zwartkei River, Mrs. Barber, 3! banks of Komani River, 3500 ft., Galpin, 2249! near Shiloh, Baur, 854!EASTERN REGION Transkei; near Tsomo, Mrs. Barber, 893! Bowker! near the Bashee River, Schlechter, 6291! Griqualand East; banks of the Umzimhlava River, near Kokstad, 4250 ft., Tyson, 1726! Natal, Cooper, 2718 partly!KALAHARI REGION Griqualand West; by the Vaal River, Bowker, 17! Warrenton, Miss Adams, 18! Orange River Colony; Rhenoster River, Burke! Transvaal; Crocodile River, Burke, 113! Zeyher, 113! Elands River, Rehmann, 4896! Umlomati Valley, Galpin, 1280! Modderfontein, Conrath, 1010!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Zeyher, 1153 partly!
Notes
The flowers are stated to be white by some collectors, by others yellow. Woodia mucronata was also distributed as 2718 by Cooper.

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