Selago ecklonianaChoisy [family SELAGINACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized,
Related name
Selago glutinosa
Selago elata
Selago pinea
Selago eckloniana
Flora
Entry for SELAGO eckloniana 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 ecklonianaChoisy [family ], in DC. Prod. xii. 13
SELAGO pineaDrège [family ], in Linnæa, xx. 201, not of Link.
Information
perennial, much branched, 1 ft. or more high; branches minutely puberulous; leaves not fascicled, numerous and crowded, spreading and somewhat recurved near the apex, linear, acute, minutely puberulous or hispidulous, 3–4 lin. long; spikes oblong, dense, 1–2 1/2 lin. long; bracts lanceolate, acute, villous and strongly ciliate, 2–2 1/4 lin. long; calyx 1 lin. long, villous; lobes oblong, obtuse, ciliate, shorter than the tube; corolla-tube linear-oblong, 2–2 1/2 lin. long; lobes broadly oblong, about a third as long as the tube. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Swellendam Div.; on hills at Hassaquas Kloof, near the Brede River, Zeyher, 3551!