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Tecomaria capensis

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Identification
Tecomaria capensis (Thunb.) Spach. [family BIGNONIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Tecomaria capensis
Common name
  • Cape honeysuckle (S Africa, Watt & Breyer-Brandwijk; U.S.A. Bates); Cape trumpet flower, Kaffir honeysuckle (Watt & Breyer-Brandwijk); red tecoma (Ghana, Irvine); yellow Cape honeysuckle (c.var. ‘aurea’, U.S.A., Bates)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for TECOMARIA capensis Spach [family BIGNONIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 447, (1904) Author: By T. A. SPRAGUE.
Names
TECOMARIA capensis Spach [family BIGNONIACEAE], Hist. Veg. Phan. ix. 137;—Seem. in Journ. Bot. 1863, 21; Baill. Hist. Pl. x. 41; K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. iv. 3B, 230, and in Mart. Fl. Bras. viii. ii. 307; Schinz in Mém. Herb. Boiss. No. 10, 62.
Tecomaria Krebsii Klotzsch [family BIGNONIACEAE], in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 193.
Tecomaria Petersii Klotzsch [family BIGNONIACEAE], l.c. 192.
Bignonia capensis Thunb. [family BIGNONIACEAE], Prodr. 105; Pers. Syn. ii. 172.
Tecoma capensis Lindl. [family BIGNONIACEAE], Bot. Reg. t. 1117; DC. Prodr. ix. 223; Drège, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 136, 142, 156, 160; Harvey, Gen. S. Afr. Pl. ed. i. 235, and ed. ii. 275; Schinz in Bull. Trav. Soc. Bot. Genève vi. (1891) 70; A. Zahlbruckner in Ann. Mus. Wien, xv. (1900) 70; Wood, Natal Plants, iii. 3, 24, t. 272.
Ducoudræa sp. Bur. [family ], Monogr. Bignon. 49.
Information
a rambling shrub, about 6 ft. high; branches subterete, minutely pubescent above, glabrescent below; leaves opposite, short-petioled, 2–5 in. long; leaflets 5–9 (rarely 3), shortly stalked, elliptic, orbicular or rhomboidal, more or less oblique at the base, 1/2–1 1/2 in. long, 1/3–1 in. broad (terminal leaflet ovate, acuminate, 3/4–1 3/4 in. long, 1/2–1 1/4 in. broad, its petiole 3/4–1 3/4 in. long), crenate, sometimes mucronulate, glabrescent above, pilose in the axils of the veins below; common peduncle 1 1/2–4 in. long, usually overtopping the leaves, bearing a raceme of numerous 3-flowered cymes; rhachis, pedicels and calyx finely pubescent; bracts linear-subulate, 2–3 lin. long, caducous; calyx tubular-campanulate, strongly ribbed; tube 1 3/4–2 1/2 lin. long; teeth deltoid, apiculate, about 1/2 lin. long, ciliate; corolla orange-red or scarlet; tube laterally compressed, 1–1 1/2 in. long, 1 lin. in diam. at the base, pilose inside for the lower third; lobes rounded, rather under 1/2 in. long, ciliate, the two upper connate for two-thirds of their length; anther-lobes 1 1/2 lin. long, 1/4 lin. broad, divergent below; capsule 3–5 in. long, 4–5 lin. broad. null
Range
Also in Tropical Transvaal.
Distribution
COAST REGION Uitenhage Div.; near Uitenhage, Burchell, 4254! thickets near the Zwartkops River, Zeyher, 15! Enon, Baur, 1033! Alexandria Div.; Zuurberg Range, 2000–3000 ft., Drège! Bathurst Div.; near Port Alfred, Burchell, 3786! near Bathurst, Atherstone, 15! Albany Div.; without precise locality, Cooper, 1544! Grahamstown, Krook in Herb. Penther, 1859. King Williamstown Div.; Kei Road Station, Krook in Herb. Penther, 1858, between Buffalo River and Kachu (Yellowwood) River, 1000–2000 ft., Drège! Keiskamma, Hutton!EASTERN REGION Transkei; near Colossa, Krook in Herb. Penther, 1860. Natal; near the mouth of the Umzimkulu River, Drège! near Durban, Drège! Wood, Wilms, 2148! Krauss, 236! Cooper, 2765! McKen, 697. Groenberg, Wood, 568! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 15! Sanderson! Delagoa Bay; Rikatla, Junod, 81, 467. Lorenzo Marquez, Peters, Wilms, 1024! and without precise locality, Scott! Forbes! Monteiro, Kuntze.SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Krebs.

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