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Serruria hirsuta

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Name

Identification
Serruria hirsuta R.Br. [family PROTEACEAE ] Serruria elongata (P.J.Bergius) R.Br. [family PROTEACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Serruria hirsuta
  • Serruria vallaris
  • Serruria phylicoides
  • Protea phylicoides
  • Serruria phylicodes
  • Leucadendron phylicoides
  • Leucadendron sp.
  • Protea patula
  • Serruria elongata
  • Protea sphaerocephala

Flora

Entry for SERRURIA hirsuta R. Br. [family PROTEACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 502, (1912) Author: By J. HUTCHINSON, E. P. PHILLIPS and O. STAPF.
Names
SERRURIA hirsuta R. Br. [family PROTEACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 120;—Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. iii. 368; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 291.
Protea phylicoides Thunb. [family PROTEACEAE], Diss. Prot. 19, partly, as to spec. α and β of Herb.; Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 124, partly, as preceding; Murr. Syst. Veg. ed. xiv. 137 (excl. syn. Berg.); Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 510, partly.
Protea hirsuta Poir. [family PROTEACEAE], Encycl. Suppl. iv. 572.
Protea serraroides Soland. ex Meisn. [family PROTEACEAE], l.c., name only.
Information
branches villous when young, becoming long-pilose when older; leaves 1–1 1/2 in. long, bipinnately divided in the upper 1/2 or 2/3, long-pilose when young, soon becoming quite glabrous; ultimate segments 2 1/2–6 lin. long, cylindric, acutely mucronate; heads terminal, solitary, subsessile, 1–1 1/4 in. long, 3/4–1 in. in diam.; peduncle up to 3 lin. long, covered with long lanceolate-linear very acute ciliate bracts; floral bracts 1/4– 1/2 in. long, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acutely acuminate, long-villous or densely pilose; perianth-tube 1–2 lin. long; segments 4 1/2–5 lin. long, spreadingly villous; limb 1–1 1/3 lin. long, oblong-linear, subacute, villous; anthers 2/3–1 lin. long; hypogynous scales 1/2 lin. long, subulate; ovary villous; style 4–5 lin. long, swollen at the base, glabrous; stigma 3/4–1 lin. long, subclavate, obtuse. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Gamble, 22187! Tyger Berg, Pappe! near Simonstown, Pappe! Schlechter, 1104! Wolley-Dod, 2925! Jameson! Wright, 626! Caledon Div.; Bot River, Mund, 43!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Grey!
Notes
Steudel (Nomencl. ed. 2, ii. 571) reduced Protea erecta, Thunb. (Fl. Cap. i. 454; S. erecta, Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 298) to this species. On examining Thunberg's type specimen we find the plant was collected in New Holland. It is identical with Isopogon anethifolius, Knight.

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