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Scyphogyne biconvexa

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Isotype of Scyphogyne biconvexa N.E.Br. [family ERICACEAE]
Type of Scyphogyne biconvexa N.E.Br. [family ERICACEAE]
Isotype of Scyphogyne biconvexa N.E.Br. [family ERICACEAE]
Isotype of Scyphogyne biconvexa N.E.Br. [family ERICACEAE]
Type of Scyphogyne biconvexa N.E.Br. [family ERICACEAE]
Isotype of Scyphogyne biconvexa N.E.Br. [family ERICACEAE]
Isotype of Scyphogyne biconvexa N.E.Br. [family ERICACEAE]
Isotype of Scyphogyne biconvexa Brown, N.E. 1906 [family ERICACEAE]
Isotype of Scyphogyne biconvexa N. E. Br. [family ERICACEAE]
Isotype of Scyphogyne biconvexa N. E. Br. [family ERICACEAE]
Isotype of Scyphogyne biconvexa N.E. Br. [family ERICACEAE]
Isotype of Scyphogyne biconvexa N.E.Br. [family ERICACEAE]
Scyphogyne biconvexa N.E.Br. [family ERICACEAE]
Type of Scyphogyne biconvexa N.E.Br. [family ERICACEAE]
Type of Scyphogyne biconvexa N.E.Br. [family ERICACEAE]
Isotype of Scyphogyne biconvexa N. E. Br. [family ERICACEAE]
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Identification
Scyphogyne biconvexa N.E.Br. [family ERICACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Erica rigidula (N.E.Br.) E.G.H.Oliv. [family ERICACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Oliver, E.G.H.,
Related name
  • Scyphogyne divaricata
  • Scyphogyne biconvexa
  • Erica rigidula

Flora

Entry for SCYPHOGYNE biconvexa N. E. Br. [family ERICACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 2, (1909) Author: By H. BOLUS, F. GUTHRIE, and N. E. BROWN.
Names
SCYPHOGYNE biconvexa N. E. Br. [family ERICACEAE]
Information
branchlets irregular, somewhat flexuose, minutely tomentose, mingled with longer simple or glandular hairs, greyish; leaves 3-nate, very spreading and more or less recurved, 1/2–1 lin. long, 1/4– 1/3 lin. broad, linear-oblong, obtuse, about equally convex above and beneath, grooved on the back, pubescent or puberulous, with 2–3 long gland-tipped hairs on each margin and 1 at the apex; flowers usually 2–3 terminating the short lateral branchlets, sometimes also axillary, sessile; calyx broadly cup-shaped, unequally 4-lobed, 1/3 lin. long, villous-pubescent, often with a few gland-tipped hairs on the ciliate margins of the lobes; corolla rather more than 1/2 lin. long, globose-campanulate, with 4 short deltoid acute teeth, thickly pubescent to 1/2-way down; stamens 4, connate, shortly exceeding the corolla; style 1/6 lin. long, deciduous; stigma large, crater-like, with slightly incurved margins, exserted just beyond the anthers. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Paarl Div.; French Hoek, Schlechter, 9244!
Notes
This closely resembles S. divaricata, Benth., but differs in its pubescent leaves, which are distinctly recurving and have a convex upper surface, the corolla also is slightly larger and pubescent with very much longer and different hairs.

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