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Selago triquetra

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Name

Identification
Selago triquetra E. Mey. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] Verified by Rolfe, R.A., Selago fruticosa L. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Hilliard, O.M.,
Related name
  • Selago thomii
  • Selago diosmoides
  • Selago ericina
  • Selago morrisii
  • Selago triquetra
  • Selago depressa
  • Selago fruticulosa
  • Selago fruticosa

Flora

Entry for SELAGO fruticulosa 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 fruticulosa Rolfe [family ]
SELAGO triquetra E. Meyer [family ], Comm. 254, not of Thunb.; Walp. Rep. iv. 150; Choisy in DC. Prod. xii. 11 partly; Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 350 partly.
Information
perennial, much branched, 1/2–1 1/4 ft. high; branches more or less divaricate, minutely puberulous; leaves not fascicled, mostly spreading or reflexed at the apex, somewhat crowded, oblong-linear, obtuse, canescent or minutely puberulous, 3/4–1 1/4 lin. long; spikes broad, short or oblong, 1/2– 3/4 in. long, dense; bracts lanceolate-linear, obtuse and often somewhat recurved at the apex, hispidulous or puberulous, about 1 1/2–2 lin. long; calyx 1 lin. long, pubescent; lobes oblong, subobtuse, ciliate, about as long as the tube; corolla-tube linear, about 2 lin. long; lobes broadly oblong, unequal, about a third as long as the tube. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Malmesbury Div.; Hopefield, Bachmann, 104! 142! 1603! between Blauw Berg and Groene Kloof, Cape Herb.! Cape Div.; sides of Devils Mountain, Pappe! hills near Cape Town, 500 ft., Bolus, 4530! Harvey, 600! slopes of Lion Mountain, 250 ft., Bolus, 2893! Wolley Dod, 3097! 3097a! Schlechter, 971! Paarl Div., Elliott! Worcester Div.; Drakenstein Mountains Rehmann, 2254! mountains above Worcester, Tyson in MacOwan Herb., 2923! Caledon Div.; Caledon, 1000 ft., Schlechter, 7596!SOUTH AFRICA without precise locality, Masson! Drège! Thom, 437! 584! Miss Cole! Ecklon & Zeyher!
Notes
This species has hitherto been confused with n. 103, S. triquetra, Linn. fil.

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