Compilation
Selago tomentosa
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Name
Identification
Selago tomentosa L. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Linnaeus, C., Manulea tomentosa (L.) L. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] Verified by Wikström, J.E.,
Related name
- Selago tomentosa
- Manulea tomentosa
Flora
Entry for MANULEA tomentosa Linn. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 121, (1904) Author: By W. P. HIERN, F.R.S.
Names
MANULEA tomentosa Linn. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Mant. alt. 420;—Jacq. Ic. iii. 7, t. 498; Meerburg, Pl. Rar. t. 8; Lam. Ill. t. 520, fig. 1; Thunb. Prodr. 101, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 470; Wettstein in Engl. Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 68, fig. 31, A-D.; Link & Otto, Ic. Pl. Sel. t. 19; Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 383, and in DC. Prodr. x. 365, not 367, n. 30; nor Bot. Mag. t. 322; Krauss in Flora, 1844, 835.
Selago tomentosa Linn. [family ], Pl. Afr. Rar. 13; Amœn. Acad. vi. 90.
Information
a hoary shrub or undershrub, finely tomentose, branched, 6–30 in. high, perennial; branches ascending or decumbent, leafy nearly or quite up to the inflorescence; leaves opposite or the upper occasionally alternate, finely obovate or oblanceolate, rounded, wedge-shaped at the base, submembranous or rather fleshy, finely tomentose on both faces, pallid, greenish-hoary, densely glandular-hispidulous, serrulate-crenate, petiolate or subsessile, 3/4–1 1/2 in. long, 1/4– 1/2 in. broad; petioles ranging up to 1/2 in. long; flowers 1/4– 1/3 in. long, sessile or subsessile in clusters, numerous; clusters sessile or subsessile in terminal thyrsoid spike-like racemes, 1 in. long, dense above and alternate, interrupted below; bracts narrow, about 1/20 in. long; calyx about 1/10 in. long in flower, rather larger in fruit, hoary and finely tomentose or hispid outside, glabrous inside, deeply 5-lobed; segments broadly linear, obtuse, shortly ciliolate; corolla orange or yellow; tube 1/5 in. long, 1/40 in. broad about the middle, 1/24 in. broad about the apex, 1/20 in. broad about the base, hoary, finely glandular-tomentose outside except towards the base, nearly glabrous inside except in the somewhat pubescent throat; limb spreading, about 1/6 in. in diam.; lobes 5, oval, entire, rounded, finely glandular-tomentose on the back at least about the base, nearly glabrous on the front; stamens 4, glandular-puberulous, included, upper pair inserted on the upper part of the corolla-tube and with very small pallid anthers, lower pair also pallid inserted above the middle of the tube and with oval-oblong anthers, 1/24 in. long; filaments very short; style nearly but not quite glabrous, 1/12 in. long; ovary nearly glabrous; ovules numerous, small; capsule ovoid, 1/5 in. long. null
Distribution
COAST REGION , below 500 ft.: Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Mac Gillivray, 623! Milne, 168! sea shore or near it on both sides of the Cape Peninsula, Thunberg! Mac Gillivray, 622! Bolus, 3060! Drège, 1318! Krauss, Wolley Dod, 1654! Harvey! Pappe! Wallich, 376! Paarden Island, Wolley Dod, 3152! Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentots Holland, Zeyher, 348! Ecklon, 30!
Notes
According to Thunberg the inflorescence has a faint scent of sage.