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Selago aspera

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Name

Identification
Selago aspera Choisy [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] Verified by Rolfe, R.A., Selago fruticosa L. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Selago ericina
  • Selago aspera
  • Selago pinea
  • Selago fruticosa

Flora

Entry for SELAGO aspera Choisy [family ]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 95, (1912) Author: By R. A. ROLFE.
Names
SELAGO aspera Choisy [family ], in DC. Prod. xii. 12
Information
perennial, much branched, 1/2–1 ft. or more high; branches canescent or minutely puberulous; leaves not fascicled, numerous and crowded, linear, subobtuse, canescent, 1–3 lin. long; spikes oblong, dense, 1/2–2 in. long; bracts linear, subacute, puberulous, ciliate, 1 1/2–2 lin. long; calyx 1–1 1/4 lin. long, villous; lobes triangular-oblong, subacute, ciliate, nearly as long as the tube; corolla-tube linear-oblong, 2 lin. long; lobes broadly oblong, subequal, about a third as long as the tube. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Caledon Div.; Caledon, Cape Herb.! Swellendam Div.; between Kochmans Kloof and Gauritz River, Ecklon & Zeyher! Bathurst Div.; Port Alfred, Souta! Div.?; “calcareous hills behind Kaos River,” Cape Herb.!

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