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Sutera cordata

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Identification
Sutera cordata Kuntze [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Sutera cordata
  • Chaenostoma pauciflorum

Flora

Entry for SUTERA cordata O. Kuntze [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 cordata O. Kuntze [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 467
Manulea cordata Thunb. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Prodr. 102, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 473; Krauss in Flora, 1844, 835.
Chænostoma cordatum Benth. [family ], in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 377, and in DC. Prodr. x. 357; Krauss in Flora, 1844, 835.
Information
perennial, scentless, shrubby or somewhat wooded at the base, herbaceous above; stems prostrate, elongated, wiry, pubescent, often rooting at intervals and throwing up erect branches, 1–2 ft. long or more; branches prostrate or erect, moderately leafy; leaves opposite, roundly ovate, usually very obtuse, subtruncate or cordate at or near the base, dentate, submembranous, more or less pubescent or puberulous, usually thinly so, 1/4–1 in. long, 1/6–1 in. broad; petioles up to 1/2 in. long; flowers few, axillary, 3/8– 2/5 in. long; peduncles 1-flowered, 1/8–1 in. long; calyx hispid or hirsute, deeply 5-lobed, 1/6– 1/4 in. long or in fruit somewhat longer; segments linear-subulate; corolla white; tube 1/3– 3/8 in. long, cylindrical-funnel-shaped, nearly straight or a little curved, thinly pubescent outside; throat glabrous; limb 3/8 in. in diam.; lobes obovate-oblong, rounded, entire, 1/8– 1/6 in. long; stamens didynamous, included; capsule ellipsoidal, 1/8 in. long. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Var. β, Aliwal Div.; Witte Bergen, 5000–6000 ft., Drège!COAST REGION , between 300 and 2000 ft.: Knysna Div.; Ruigte Valley, Drège, 7912! Zitzikamma Forest, Krauss, 1134! Knysna, Pappe! near Stofpad, Burchell, 5289! near Melville, Burchell, 5476! Port Elizabeth Div.; Krakakamma, Burchell, 4551! Ecklon! Alexandria Div.; Olifants Hoek, Ecklon and Zeyher, 75! Bathurst Div.; near Port Alfred, Burchell, 3817! Albany Div.; near Grahamstown, Galpin, 182! Guthrie, 3318! Howison's Poort, Cooper, 1911! and without precise locality, Bowker! Cooper, 2866! King Williamstown Div.; Perie Mountains, Scott-Elliot, 933! Var. β, Stockenstrom Div.; Kat Berg, on the Balfour side, Baur, 863!EASTERN REGION Var. β, Tembuland Div.; at Clarkes Drift, Qumancu River, 3000 ft., Bolus, 8763!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg!

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