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Tetragonia arbuscula

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Name

Identification
Tetragonia arbuscula Fenzl ex Harv. & Sond. [family AIZOACEAE ] (stored under name); Tetragonia karasmontana Dinter [family AIZOACEAE ] Tetragonia macroptera Pax [family AIZOACEAE ]
Related name
  • Tetragonia macroptera
  • Tetragonia arbuscula
  • Tetragonia karasmontana

Flora

Entry for TETRAGONIA arbuscula Fenzl. [family AIZOACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 386, (1894) Author: (BY W. SONDER.)
Names
TETRAGONIA arbuscula Fenzl. [family AIZOACEAE]
Information
suffruticose, much branched, glabrous; branches diffuse, woody, virgate; branchlets abbreviate, leafy; leaves ovate-oblong, lanceolate or linear, obtuse, attenuated in a short petiole, flat, not revolute at the margins; flowers 2–3, pedicellate in the axils of the leaves, disposed in a long leafy raceme; lobes of calyx broad-ovate, very blunt; stamens 20–30; styles 2–3, a little longer than the calyx; fruit 1/2 inch, shining, obovate-orbicular, 2–3- locular, with 3 or 4 wings and 4 alternate, obsolete costæ. Leaves 4–10 lines long. Calyx-lobes mostly 1 1/2 line long. Allied to T. fruticosa; differs by the woody branches and branchlets, smaller flowers and fruit, and more exserted styles.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Sneeuwbergen, and near Steelkloof, 4–5000 ft. Drege, 659, 7036, 7040; Gamkariver, Burke and Zeyher, 712. Var. β. Gamkariver, Drege, 7048. (Herb. Vind. D. Sd.)

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