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Staavia glaucescens

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Name

Identification
Staavia glutinosa (L.) Dahl [family BRUNIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by HBg-formal name change, 2007 Staavia glaucescens E. Meyer in Drège nomen [family BRUNIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Staavia glaucescens
  • Staavia glutinosa

Flora

Entry for STAAVIA glutinosa Thunb. [family BRUNIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 309, (1894) Author: (By W. SONDER).
Names
STAAVIA glutinosa Thunb. [family BRUNIACEAE], ! fl. Cap. p. 207;—Brogn. l. c. p. 22, E. & Z.! 1074. Herb. Un. itin. No. 766.
Brunia glutinosa Linn. [family BRUNIACEAE], Mant. 210. Berg. Cap. p. 57. Wendl. coll. 1, t. 22.
STAAVIA glutinosa? E. Meyer [family BRUNIACEAE], ! in Herb. Drege.
STAAVIA glaucescens E. Meyer [family BRUNIACEAE], ! in Herb. Drege.
Information
branches and leaves quite smooth; leaves approximate, erect or spreading, linear, trigonal, obtuse, callous, mucronulate; heads of flowers usually solitary, bracteæ of involucre erect or stiffly spreading, white, much longer than the flowers; flowers agglutinated with resinous juice. Shrub 3 feet or more in height. Branches subverticillate, fastigiate, brown-purplish. Leaves small-linear, 6–8 lines long, the uppermost smaller. Petiole adpressed, 1 line long. Heads the size of a cherry. Leaflets of the involucre carinate-trigonous, whitish, at the base greenish, 6 lines long, with a black mucro.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA On Table Mountain. Oct. (Herb. Th., Sd., &c.)

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