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Selago cinerascens

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Name

Identification
Selago cinerascens E. Mey. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by E. H. F. Meyer,
Related name
  • Selago cinerascens
  • Selago cinerea
  • Walafrida cinerea

Flora

Entry for WALAFRIDA cinerea Rolfe [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
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
WALAFRIDA cinerea Rolfe [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Selago cinerea Linn. fil. [family ], Suppl. 285, not of E. Meyer or Choisy; Murr. Syst. Veg. ed. 14, 568; Thunb. Prodr. 99, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 463; Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 350.
Selago cinerascens E. Meyer [family ], Comm. 270, not of Choisy; Walp. Rep. iv. 165.
Information
perennial, much branched, 1–2 ft. or more high; branches erect, puberulous; leaves more or less fascicled, linear or linear-oblong, subobtuse, glaucous or minutely canescent, 3–6 lin. long; flowers arranged in dense corymbose cymes or panicles, 1–3 in. broad; bracts linear-lanceolate, subacute, minutely ciliate, 1–1 1/4 lin. long; calyx 3/4–1 lin. long, canescent; lobes lanceolate, subacute, ciliate; corolla white to blue (Flanaghan); tube slender, 1 1/2–2 lin. long; lobes broadly oblong, 1 lin. long. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Riversdale Div.; near Milkwood Fontein, 600 ft., Galpin, 4403! Riversdale, Rust, 167! Knysna Div.; Knysna, Bowie! East London Div.; banks of Kahoon River, East London, 50 ft., Galpin, 3332! Kahoon Drift, near East London, 2000 ft., Flanaghan, 214!SOUTH AFRICA without precise locality, Drège!
Notes
“ S. cinerascens, E. Meyer,” quoted by Hochst. in Flora, 1845, 70, and Krauss, Beitr. Fl. Cap. und Natal, 134, as collected on Devils Mountain, Cape Div., by Krauss, is probably different.

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