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Identification
Striga elegans Benth. [family OROBANCHACEAE ]
Related name
  • Striga elegans

Flora

Entry for STRIGA elegans Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 121, (1904) Author: By W. P. HIERN, F.R.S.
Names
STRIGA elegans Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 363;—Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 502; O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. iii. ii. 240.
Buchnera elegans D. Dietr. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Syn. Pl. iii. 525.
Information
an erect herb, hispid-scabrid, grey-green, branched or simple, annual, 3–12 in. high, perhaps parasitical; branches erect or ascending, strict, often fastigiate, striate, leafy, angular; leaves opposite or the upper floral ones alternate, lanceolate-linear, acute or pointed and cartilaginous at the tip, not much narrowed at the sessile base, entire, erect or suberect, 1/2–1 in. long, 1/16– 1/8 in. broad; internodes mostly shorter than the leaves; flowers spicate, pale pink, white, deep red or bright scarlet, sessile, numerous, 1/2– 7/8 in. long; spikes terminal, dense, not very slender, elongating; floral leaves narrowly lanceolate, acute, scabrid, hispid, 1/5– 1/3 in. long; bracteoles linear-subulate, scabrid, hispid, about 1/5– 1/4 in. long, adpressed to the calyx; calyx narrow, 1/3– 1/2 in. long, hispid-scabrid; tube 10–11-nerved; lobes 5, lanceolate or subulate, 1/12– 1/8 in. long; corolla-tube subcylindrical, glandular-puberulous outside, finely pilose within, somewhat enlarged and strongly bent near the apex; limb spreading, 1/2– 3/4 in. in diam.; scarlet or pink above, white beneath; lobes obovate, 1/8– 1/3 in. long; upper lip broad, emarginate, not much shorter than the 3 segments of the lower; stamens glabrous, inserted above the middle of the corolla-tube. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa.
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Aliwal North Div.; between Kraai River and the Witte Bergen, 4500–5000 ft., Drège, 3591 b! Albert Div., Cooper, 1379!COAST REGION , between 500 and 4000 ft.: Albany Div.; Grahamstown, Bolton! MacOwan! Bothas Hill, Baur, 1089! MacOwan, 426! Queenstown Div.; hills near the Klipplaats River, Drège, 3591 a! near Queenstown, Galpin, 1763! Mrs. Barber, 615! Cathcart Div.; Cathcart, Kuntze. Stutterheim Div.; Kabusie River, Murray, 426!EASTERN REGION , between 500 and 5000 ft.: Transkei; Tsomo River, Mrs. Barber, 807! Tembuland; Bazeia, Baur, 34! Griqualand East; in meadows, Tyson, 1368! Natal; between Mooi River and Estcourt, Wood, 668! 3484! Klip River, Gerrard & McKen, 366! Colenso, Kuntze. Swaziland; Havelock Concession, Saltmarshe in Herb. Galpin, 1040!KALAHARI REGION Orange River Colony; Thaba Unchu, Burke, 443! Zeyher, 1278! near Vredefort, Barrett-Hamilton! and without precise locality, 2827! 2828! Bechuanaland; at Hamapery, Burchell, 2482! 2507! between Mafeking and Ramoutsa, Lugard! Transvaal; near Pretoria, Maclea, 129 (in Herb. Bolus, 5745)! Olifants River, Botsabelo, Nelson, 394! between Porter and Trigardsfontein, Rehmann, 6611! between Trigardsfontein and Standerton, Rehmann, 6741! near Lydenburg, Wilms, 1228! near Bronkhorst River, Wilms, 1228 b! Johannesburg, Rand, 1018! Ommaney, 60! 61! near Standerton, Wilms, 1228 c! Pretoria, Kuntze.SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Zeyher, 3591!
Notes
O. Kuntze, l.c., gives two varieties of this species: α. coccinea; corolla brilliant scarlet with a yellowish tube; β. alborosea; corolla white, at length rosy. There is considerable variation in the size of the flowers; the small-flowered form is usually associated in the dry state with a rather dusky foliage.

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