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Streptocarpus dunnii

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Identification
Streptocarpus dunnii Hook.f. [family GESNERIACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for STREPTOCARPUS Dunnii Hook. f. [family GESNERIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 437, (1904) Author: By C. B. CLARKE.
Names
STREPTOCARPUS Dunnii Hook. f. [family GESNERIACEAE], Bot. Mag. t. 6903;—Nichols. Dict. Gard. iii. 516; Godefr. Leb. in Le Jardin, 1888, 55, with fig., 1894, 115, with fig.; W. Watson in Garden & For. 1890, 608, fig. 81.
STREPTOCARPUS Armitagei Bak. f. & S. Moore [family GESNERIACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1901, 262.
Streptocarpus sp. Masters [family GESNERIACEAE], in Gard. Chron. 1886, xxv. 625.
Information
leaf attaining 36 by 16 in. coarsely crenate, very hairy beneath; nerves 20 pairs; peduncles 0–6 in. long, with many (sometimes 40) flowers; calyx-lobes nearly 1/3 in. long, linear-ligulate with many-celled not gland-tipped hairs; corolla 1 2/3 in. long, pink to pink-yellow; tube 1 1/3 in. long, narrow-conic, 1/3 in. wide at the top, nearly straight; limb very short; filaments dilated in the middle, slightly glandular at the tip; pollen globose; pistil densely shaggy with erect multicellular not gland-tipped hairs; capsule 1 1/4 by 1/6 in. null
Distribution
KALAHARI REGION Transvaal, at 3600 to 6000 ft.; Spitz Kop, Dunn! Devils Knuckles, Wilms, 1026! Saddleback Range near Barberton, Galpin, 704! Armytage! Greylingstad, Rand, 1313!
Notes
Leaves with the upper surface smooth, minutely hairy, the corolla-tube with slender hairs outside; in the typical S. Armitagei (Galpin 704), the young leaf is rugose shaggy on the upper surface; the corolla-tube is more hairy. The young leaves, however, of the S. Dunnii type have the upper surface rugose, more hairy. The length of the pedicels, described as different by Baker f. & S. Moore, appears to me the same at the same age in the two plants. It is observable that, in every dried specimen in the herbarium, the spirit (used in poisoning) has dissolved out of every part of this plant an orange stain known in no other Streptocarpus. The ligulate calyx-lobes, the short-limbed corolla, the upright shaggy hairs of the pistil, are exactly alike in S. Dunnii and in S. Armitagei.

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