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Scyphogyne inconspicua

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Identification
Erica muscosa (Aiton) E.G.H. Oliv. [family ERICACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by HBG-formal name change, 2010 Omphalocaryon muscosum (Aiton) Klotzsch [family ERICACEAE ] Verified by HBG-formal name entry, 2010 Scyphogyne inconspicua Decne. [family ERICACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Scyphogyne inconspicua
  • Blaeria micrantha
  • Blaeria unrecorded
  • Scyphogyne unrecorded
  • Omphalocaryon muscosa
  • Scyphogyne sp.
  • Erica muscosa
  • Scyphogyne muscosa
  • Erica albida
  • Blaeria muscosa
  • Erica pusilla
  • Blaeria leptantha
  • Omphalocaryon muscosum

Flora

Entry for SCYPHOGYNE inconspicua Brongn. [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 inconspicua Brongn. [family ERICACEAE], in Duperrey, Voy. Coquille, Atlas, t. 54;—Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 709.
SCYPHOGYNE muscosa Steud. [family ERICACEAE], Nom. ed. 2, i. 568 under Erica albens, Thunb.
Erica albens Thunb. [family ERICACEAE], Prodr. Cap. 70, not of Linn.
Erica albida Thunb. [family ERICACEAE], Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 347 partly (sheet α, Herb. Thunb.!).
Omphalocaryon muscosum Klotzsch [family ], in Linnæa, xii. 243; Rach in Linnæa, xxvi. 792.
Blæria muscosa Ait. [family ], Hort. Kew. ed. 1. i. 150, and ed. 2, i. 249; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 630; Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 169; Dietr. Synop. Pl. i. 444; Klotzsch in Linnæa, viii. 665.
Blæria mucosa G. Don [family ], Gen. Syst. iii. 804.
Blæria albida Thunb. [family ], Diss. Blæria, 9.
Blæria pusilla Wendl. [family ], Collect. iii. 13, t. 79.
Information
densely much branched; branches clothed with a soft spreading viscid pubescence or sometimes puberulous; leaves 3-nate, erect or spreading, 1/2–1 1/2 lin. long including the petiole, 1/5– 1/3 lin. broad, linear, often with a sessile gland at the obtuse apex, glabrous or with a slight pubescence on the upper side, often viscid, with or without a minute ciliation or a few long more or less gland-tipped hairs on the margins; flowers axillary or in clusters of 3–6 at the tips of exceedingly short (rarely elongated) axillary branchlets, subsessile or minutely pedicellate; calyx 1/4– 2/5 lin. long, obconic, unequally or subequally 4-toothed, 4-angled, pubescent; teeth about 1/2 as long as the tube, erect, ovate, obtuse or acute, sometimes tipped with a sessile gland, ciliate, one usually larger or smaller than the rest; corolla 2/5– 3/5 lin. long, obconic, hyaline, quite glabrous; lobes subquadrate or rounded, subtruncate, minutely erose or denticulate, but not ciliate, white; stamens 4, free at maturity, all connate in young flowers, very deciduous; filamemts 1/8 lin. long, glabrous; anthers half-exserted, 1/2 lin. long, 1/4 lin. broad at the broadly notched apex, cuneate, rarely with, usually without, minute subsessile glands along the margin of the notch; ovary sessile, ovoid, pubescent round the top; style 1/4 lin. long, glabrous, terminated by a large broadly funnel-shaped or saucer-shaped stigma, equalling or just exceeding the anthers, 1/3– 2/5 lin. in diam., deciduous. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION between 4500 and 5000 ft.; Var. δ: Ceres Div.; Cold Bokkeveld, Schlechter, 8927! 10059!COAST REGION from 500 to 5500 ft.: Cape Div.; on mountains, Thunberg! Burchell, 617! Alexander, 23! Bolus, 3070! 4685! Wolley Dod, 893! 1008! 3216! Caledon Div.; Zwart Berg at Sandfontein, Schlechter, 10359! mountains near Palmiet River, Guthrie, 4577! Bredasdorp Div.; Elim, Schlechter, 7663 partly! Swellendam Div.; Zuurbraak Mountain, Galpin, 3728! Var. β: Cape Div.; Muizenberg Mountain, Bolus, 4424! George Div.; by the Maal-gaten River at Wolve Drift, Burchell, 6113! Var. γ: Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Thunberg! Drège! Cape Flats, Burchell, 162! 192! Alexander, 2! Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 47! Caledon Div.; near Caledon, Pappe! Volgelgat, Schlechter, 9545! near Steenbrass River, Schlechter, 5391! Var. δ: Clanwilliam Div.; Ezelsbank, Schlechter, 8828! Cape Div.; Kasteel Mountain, Ecklon, 296! Caledon Div.; near Steenbrass River, Guthrie, 2725! Bredasdorp Div.; Elim, Schlechter, 7663 partly! Riversdale Div.; lower part of the mountains at Garcias Pass, Burchell, 6928! Var. ε: Ceres Div.; near Ceres, Bolus, 8483!SOUTH AFRICA without locality; Var. γ: Sieber, 179! Zeyher, 1121!
Notes
This appears to be a very variable plant, all the organs differing in relative size; in Schlechter's 5391 and 9545 the corolla scarcely exceeds the calyx, in others it is twice as long, and there are all intermediate stages; the corolla, apart from the cilia, is glabrous in all the specimens quoted except var. vestita, which is densely pubescent outside, and some specimens of Zeyher, 1121, which have a few hairs on the back of the lobes. A specimen named “ muscosa, Soland,” from Salisbury's Herbarium is identical with the type of the species, but one from the Herbarium of Bishop Goodenough labelled “ Blæria muscosa, Kew Gardens,” and may possibly be from Aiton's type, has a glabrous calyx and a ciliate corolla, and belongs to var. ciliata.

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