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Sutera aurantiaca

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Identification
Sutera aurantiaca (Burch.) Hiern [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for SUTERA aurantiaca Hiern [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
SUTERA aurantiaca Hiern [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 757
Buchnera aurantiaca Burchell [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 380, and in DC. Prodr. x. 361.
Lyperia multifida Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Trav. S. Afr. i. 388.
Manulea multifida O. Kuntze [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Rev. Gen. Pl. iii. ii. 236.
Information
shrubby at least at the base, glandular-puberulous, apparently sometimes annual and in other cases perennial, divided at or near the base into several decumbent or procumbent woody or wiry branches; branchlets slender, wiry or subherbaceous, alternate, leafy or sparingly so; leaves subfasciculate, ovate or obovate, obtuse or subacute, narrowed at the base, bipinnatisect, 1/6– 2/3 in. long, 1/8– 1/2 in. broad, finely glandular-pilose; petioles up to 1/8 in. long; primary segments elliptical or oblong-cuneate, mostly petiolate; ultimate segments oblong-obovate or oval, or linear, sessile, small; flowers orange or bright red, slightly striated (W. Nelson), racemose or axillary, 1/4– 1/3 in. long; racemes lax, few- or several-flowered, short or elongated, terminal; pedicels divaricate, glandular-puberulous, 1/4– 3/4 in. long, moderately rigid, 1-flowered; bracts similar to the leaves or simply pinnatisect, smaller; calyx finely glandular-pilose, deeply 5-lobed, 1/12– 1/6 in. long; segments sublinear or spathulate, obtusely pointed; corolla-tube subcylindrical, towards the apex a little curved and shortly funnel-shaped, 1/5– 1/3 in. long, not very slender, glandular outside; limb spreading, somewhat oblique, 1/4– 2/5 in. in diam.; lobes obovate-rotund, entire, 1/10– 1/5 in. long; stamens included; style glabrous, nearly as long as or not much shorter than the corolla-tube; capsules ovoid or oblong, 1/10– 1/5 in. long, shortly or scarcely exceeding the calyx, pallid, glabrous, shining. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa.
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION , from 2000–5000 ft.: Somerset Div.; at the foot of Bosch Berg, MacOwan, 1227! Cradock Div.; near Cradock, Burke! Richmond Div.; Winterweld, Drège. Aliwal North Div.; near Aliwal North, Kuntze. Albert Div.; near the Stormberg River, Drège, 797 a! near the Orange River, Burke! near Gaatje, Drège, and without precise locality, Cooper, 573! Colesberg Div.; near Colesberg, Shaw!COAST REGION Riversdale Div.; on arid plains near the Gauritz River, Bowie! Bathurst Div.; between Kap River and Fish River, Drège (ex Bentham)! Queenstown Div.; Cooper, 332!EASTERN REGION Tembuland; between Engcobo and Nquamakwe, Bolus, 8757! Natal; Mohlamba Range, Sutherland! between Greytown and Newcastle, Wilms, 2187! near Newcastle, Wood, 5867! Zululand, Gerrard, 1517!KALAHARI REGION from 3000–5000 ft.—Griqualand West, Hay Div.; Griqua Town, Burchell, 1847! Herbert Div.; Spuigslang Fontein, Burchell, 1727! Orange River Colony; near the Caledon River, Burke! Zeyher, 1296! Kommissie Drift, Zeyher, 1298! Wolve Kop, Burke, 136! Basutoland, Cooper, 2860! Bechuanaland, between Kuruman and the Vaal River, Cruickshank in Herb. Bolus, 1955! Transvaal; by the Aapies River, near Pretoria, Burke! Zeyher, 1300! Wilms, 1067 a! Aapies Poort, Rehmann, 4120! near Lydenburg, Wilms, 1067! Magalies Berg, Zeyher, 1303! north of Yuckschyt River, Nelson, 524!

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