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Simocheilus depressus

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Name

Identification
Simocheilus depressus (Licht. ex Roem.&Schult.) Benth. [family ERICACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Blairia fasciculata
  • Blaeria unrecorded
  • Erica unrecorded
  • Simocheilus depressus
  • Blaeria ericoides
  • Blaeria muscosa
  • Simocheilus patens
  • Blaeria glabella
  • Simocheilus glabellus

Flora

Entry for SIMOCHEILUS depressus Benth. [family ERICACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 2, (1909) Author: By H. BOLUS, F. GUTHRIE, and N. E. BROWN.
Names
SIMOCHEILUS depressus Benth. [family ERICACEAE], in DC. Prodr. vii. 704
Blæria depressa Lichtenstein ex Roem. & Schultes [family ], Syst. Veg. iii. 168.
Blæria scabra Wendl. [family ], Collect. i. 85, t. 31, not of other authors.
Blæria fasciculata Drège ex Benth. [family ], l.c., not Willd.
Blæria glabella Klotzsch var. bartlingiana [family ], in Linnæa, viii. 662.
Erica exprompta Spreng. [family ERICACEAE], Syst. Veg. ii. 195, ex Klotzsch, & Benth.
Gypsocallis exprompta Don [family ], Gen. Syst. iii. 804.
Octogonia glabella Klotzsch var. bartlingiana [family ], in Linnæa, xii. 234.
Thoracosperma depressa O. Kuntze [family ERICACEAE], Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 390.
Information
like S. glabellus in all characters except: leaves not paler in colour nor at all callus-like at the tips, always minutely scabrous-tuberculate and often hispid-pubescent all over, sometimes sprinkled with gland-tipped hairs; calyx 2/3 to nearly 1 lin. long, oblong or ellipsoid-oblong, more or less hairy all over the tube and ciliate with rather long hairs on the teeth; corolla 1 1/3–2 lin. long, the exserted part varying from shorter than to 1 1/4 times as long as the calyx; anthers often spurless. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Cape Div.; near Cape Town, Burchell, 915! Prior! neck between Shoesters and Patrys Vley, Wolley Dod, 3040! Twelve Apostles, Wolley Dod, 1199! hills near Simons Town, Wright! MacOwan & Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 40! Bolus, 4993! Guthrie, 1461! Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek, Scott-Elliot, 1194!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Drège! Mund & Maire! Forbes! Var. β: Sieber, 156!
Notes
This plant varies in a similar manner to S. glabellus and may be only a form of that species with a constantly pubescent calyx-tube.

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