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Selago ericina

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Name

Identification
Selago thomii Rolfe [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Selago ramosissima Rolfe [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] Verified by Hilliard, O. M., 1996 Selago ericina E.Mey. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Selago diosmoides
  • Selago thomii
  • Selago ericina
  • Selago triquetra
  • Selago ramosissima
  • Selago aspera
  • Selago fruticosa

Flora

Entry for SELAGO ramosissima 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 ramosissima Rolfe [family ]
SELAGO ericina Drège [family ], in Linnæa, xx. 201; Choisy in DC. Prod. xii. 12, not of E. Meyer.
Information
perennial, profusely branched, 4–9 in. high; branches minutely puberulous; leaves not fascicled, crowded, imbricate, more or less adpressed to the branches, oblong, obtuse, hispidulous, 1/2–1 lin. long; heads roundish or shortly oblong, dense, 3–6 lin. long; bracts oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, hispidulous and ciliate, 1–1 1/4 lin. long; calyx 1–1 1/4 lin. long, closely villous; lobes oblong, obtuse, ciliate, nearly as long as the tube; corolla white (Galpin); tube linear-oblong, 1 1/2 lin. long; lobes broadly oblong, unequal, about half as long as the tube. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Cape Div.; Table Mountain, 500 ft., Schlechter, 160! Bredasdorp Div.; Zeekoe Vley, 100 ft., Schlechter, 10546! Swellendam Div.; on mountain ridges along the lower part of the River Zonder Einde, Zeyher, 3573! on dry hills near the eastern bank of the Breede River, Burchell, 7479! Mossel Bay Div.; near Great Brak River, 300 ft., Galpin, 4415!
Notes
S. ericina, E. Meyer, is now referred to S. triquetra, Linn. fil.

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