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Scabiosa tomentosa

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Name

Identification
Scabiosa tomentosa L. [family DIPSACACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Scabiosa tomentosa L. [family DIPSACACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Scabiosa tomentosa Cav. [family DIPSACACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Scabiosa turolensis Pau [family DIPSACACEAE ] Verified by A. Romo, 1995
Related name
  • Scabiosa cinerea
  • Scabiosa tomentosa
  • Scabiosa buekiana
  • Scabiosa angustiloba
  • Scabiosa holosericea
  • Scabiosa turolensis

Flora

Entry for SCABIOSA Buekiana E. Z. [family DIPSACACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 3, page 41, (1894) Author: (By W. SONDER).
Names
SCABIOSA Buekiana E. Z. [family DIPSACACEAE], ! 2336
SCABIOSA tomentosa E. Mey. [family DIPSACACEAE]
Information
whole plant clothed with appressed silky hairs; stem suffruticose, branched and leafy at the base; leaves sessile, lyrately- or cuneate-spathulate, serrato-dentate from the middle, quite entire at the base; peduncles elongated; heads of fruit subglobose; corollas radiant, 5-fid; crown about 20-nerved; bristles of calyx 5, 2–3-times longer than the crown. Stem short, but branches 1 foot and more high Leaves 1–1 1/2 inch long, 6–8 lines broad, obovate-cuneated, bluntly-toothed or serrated, or in var. γ. deeply-pinnatifid; lobes about 4 lines long, 1 line broad. Heads nearly as in S. columbaria. Peduncles 1 foot long. Leaves of involucre lanceolate, twice shorter than the radiant outer flowers. Lobes of the pubescent corolla twice shorter than the tube. Fruit and involucel as in S. columbaria; but the bristles are generally somewhat shorter.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Grassy hills near Olifantshoek on Bosjesmansriver, Uitenh., Sept., E. Z.; near Salomonstown, May, Zey. 2732; var. β. in Caffraria, Eck. Herb., T. Cooper, 303; var. γ. near Grahamstown and Glenfilling, Dec., Drege. (Herb. Sd., D.)

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