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Selago ramulosa

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Name

Identification
Selago ramulosa Choisy [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] Hebenstretia fruticosa L.f. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] Dischisma fruticosum (L.f) Rolfe [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Hebenstretia fruticosa
  • Selago canescens
  • Selago ramulosa
  • Selago meyeri
  • Dischisma fruticosum

Flora

Entry for DISCHISMA fruticosum 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
DISCHISMA fruticosum Rolfe [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 351
Hebenstreitia fruticosa Linn. fil. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Suppl. 287; Murr. Syst. Veg. ed. 14, 570; Poir. Encycl. iii. 78; Thunb. Prodr. 103; and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 478, excl. syn. Berg.; Willd. Sp. Pl. iii. 331; Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii. 754; not of Sims, E. Meyer, Walpers, or Choisy.
Selago ramulosa Choisy [family ], in DC. Prod. xii. 20, not of Link or E. Meyer.
Information
perennial, stout, erect, much branched, 1–2 ft. or more high; branches glabrous; leaves sessile, somewhat crowded near the base of the branches, linear or linear-lanceolate, subobtuse, with 3–5 pairs of small teeth above the middle, glabrous, 4–9 lin. long; spikes elongated, dense, up to 3 in. long in fruit; bracts lanceolate or ovate, acute, glabrous, 1 1/2–2 lin. long; calyx-lobes lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, apiculate, 1–1 1/4 lin. long; corolla 3–4 lin. long; tube slender; lobes oblong, nearly 1 lin. long; fruit ovoid, 1 1/2 lin. long. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Clanwilliam Div.; Lamberts or Alexanders Kloof, Wallich! Piquetberg Div.; Piquetberg Mountain, Thunberg!SOUTH AFRICA without precise locality, Masson!
Notes
This species has been much confused by authors.

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