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Striga thunbergii

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Identification
Isotype of Striga thunbergii Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Striga bilabiata Kuntze [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Paiva, J., 1967
Related name
  • Striga thunbergii
  • Striga bilabiata
  • Striga welwitschii
  • Striga unrecorded
  • Buchnera unrecorded

Flora

Entry for STRIGA Thunbergii 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 Thunbergii Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 363;—Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 502.
Buchnera bilabiata Thunb. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Prodr. 100, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 465.
Buchnera Thunbergii D. Dietr. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Syn. Pl. iii. 525.
Buchnera asiatica Linn. Herb. ex parte, fide Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in DC. l.c., not of Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 630.
STRIGA bilabiata O. Kuntze [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Rev. Gen. Pl. iii. ii. 240.
Information
an erect herb, parasitical, scabrid, hispid, grey-green, simple or branched, annual, 2 1/2–18 in. high; branches ascending, strict, slender, leafy, angular; leaves linear or lanceolate-linear, acute or subacute, cartilaginous at the tip, somewhat narrowed at the sessile narrowly decurrent base, entire, opposite or the upper alternate, 1/6–1 in. long, 1/50– 1/8 in. broad, rigid, erect or suberect, often spreading towards the apex; floral leaves sublanceolate, approximated; flowers spicate, pink, mauve, purple or red, rather numerous, about 1/2 in. long; spikes dense, elongating; floral leaves exceeding the calyx, adpressed below, recurving or spreading above, hispid-ciliate; bracteoles shorter than the calyx, narrowly lanceolate, acute, rigid, adpressed, coriaceous; calyx strongly 5-ribbed, sessile, coriaceous, hispid-scabrid on the ribs and margin, 5-cleft, about 1/4 in. long; lobes narrowly lanceolate, acute, about 1/8 in. long; corolla-tube about 1/2 in. long, strongly bent outwards above the middle, narrow and subcylindrical below, obliquely and narrowly funnel-shaped above, shortly glandular-pubescent outside, glabrous inside; limb bilabiate, spreading; upper lip obovate, emarginate, about 1/6 in. long; lower lip trifid, about 1/5 in. long; stamens and style included within the corolla-tube, glabrous; capsules obovoid, glabrous, included within the persistent calyx, about 1/10 in. long. Krauss in Flora, 1844, 834; null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION , between 3500 and 5000 ft.: Cradock Div.; Cradock, Cooper, 2830! Graaff Reinet Div.; at Houd Constant Waterfall, Bolus, 1848! Aliwal North Div.; Witte Bergen, Drège, 2297 d! Albert Div.; Mooi Plaats, Drège, and without precise locality, Cooper, 785!COAST REGION , ascending to 3000 ft.: Uitenhage Div.; Addo, Drège, 2297 a! Vanstadens Berg, Zeyher, 720! Bowie! and without precise locality, Ecklon! Zeyher, 1277! Albany Div.; Grahamstown, MacOwan, 11! Bolton! Howisons Poort, Hutton! Fort Beaufort Div., Cooper, 561! Queenstown Div.; near Queenstown, Bowker, 614! Galpin, 1756! VAR. β: Fort Beaufort Div.; Kat River Poort, Drège, 2297 b!EASTERN REGION Pondoland; Fakus territory, Sutherland! Griqualand East; near Clydesdale, Tyson, 2560! and in MacOwan & Bolus, Herb. Norm., 894! Natal; Table Mountain, Krauss, 213! Attercliff, Sanderson, 428! Inanda, Wood, 113! Charlestown and Colenso, Kuntze; near Newcastle, Wilms, 2211! Shafton, Howick, Mrs. Hutton, 181! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 43! Gueinzius, 48! Zululand; Ungoya, Wylie in Herb. Wood, 5739! Isandhlwana, Patteshall Thomas! Delagoa Bay; near Komati River, Bolus, 7666!KALAHARI REGION Orange River Colony; Wolve Kop, Thaba Unchu and Caledon River, Burke! Bloemfontein, Kuntze, and without precise locality, Cooper, 2829! Basutoland, Cooper, 2832! Bechuanaland; near Hamapery, Burchell, 2492! between Hamapery and Knegts Fontein, Burchell, 2547! 2604! Transvaal; Johannesburg, Rand, 969! near Lydenburg, Wilms, 1226! near Heidelberg, Wilms, 1226 d! Kudus Poort, Rehmann, 4677! Pretoria, Wilms, 1226 c! Kuntze.SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg! Oldenburg, 1160!

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