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Selago elata

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Name

Identification
Selago elata Rolfe [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Selago procera Hilliard [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Hilliard, O.M.,
Related name
  • Selago elata
  • Phyllopodium unrecorded
  • Selago procera
  • Selago eckloniana

Flora

Entry for SELAGO elata Rolfe [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 elata Rolfe [family ]
Information
perennial, much branched, 2–3 ft. high; branches pubescent or puberulous; leaves solitary or with a few small leaflets in the axils, lanceolate-oblong or elliptical, subobtuse, puberulous, 1/2–1 1/2 in. long; racemes short, subcapitate when young, numerous, arranged in a lax or narrow panicle towards the summit of the branches; bracts lanceolate-oblong, subobtuse, puberulous, 1–1 1/2 lin. long; adnate at the base to the pedicel; pedicels up to 1/2 lin. long; calyx 1 1/2–2 lin. long, puberulous; lobes linear, subobtuse, ciliate, about a third as long as the tube; corolla white (Thorncroft); tube linear, 2 1/2–3 lin. long; lobes broadly oblong, subequal, about a third as long as the tube. null
Distribution
KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; in scrub on a hill-side at Barberton, 3500 ft., Galpin, 862! Houtbosch, Rehmann, 6206! and without precise locality, at 5000 ft., Thorncroft, 287 (in Herb. Wood, 4347)!

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