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Thunbergia aspera

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Name

Identification
Thunbergia bachmannii Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE ] (stored under name); Thunbergia bachmannii Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE ] Verified by Clarke, C.B., Thunbergia aspera Nees [family ACANTHACEAE ] Thunbergia unrecorded unrecorded [family ACANTHACEAE ]
Related name
  • Thunbergia unrecorded
  • Thunbergia atriplicifolia
  • Thunbergia aspera
  • Thunbergia bachmannii

Flora

Entry for THUNBERGIA aspera Nees [family ACANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 1, (1912) Author: By C. B. CLARKE.
Names
THUNBERGIA aspera Nees [family ACANTHACEAE], in DC. Prod. xi. 56
THUNBERGIA atriplicifolia T. Anders. [family ACANTHACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 20 partly.
THUNBERGIA Bachmanni Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 94 partly.
Information
leaves 1 1/4 by 1/2 in., elliptic-oblong, green on both faces, often with a tooth at the lower angle, otherwise subentire, glabrate when mature; anther-cells with few hairs except the basal tuft; otherwise as typical T. atriplicifolia, E. Mey. null
Distribution
COAST REGION British Kaffraria (Caffer Land), Gill!EASTERN REGION Pondoland, Bachmann, 1266! Natal; Coastland to 1000 ft., Sutherland!KALAHARI REGION Var. β: Transvaal; Magaliesberg, Burke! Zeyher, 1418! Olifants Nek, Burke!
Notes
The “type” is Gill's example, above described. In this (and in all the plants here placed) the corolla has the tube 3/4 in. long, the limb 1 in. in diam., and is yellow (Bolus); the spur at the base of the anther-cell is strong; so that T. aspera, Lindau (in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. Beibl. 41, 36, 39), is some remote species. Bachmann, 1266, matches exactly so far as it goes; the example at Kew, however, has no flowers. Sonder says that Zeyher, 1418, was typical T. aspera; and that the Olifants Nek plant was his var. parvifolia; but Olifants Nek is in the Magaliesberg, and the two appear identical. The plants, arranged below as T. Bachmanni, var. minor, differ from T. aspera, var. parvifolia by their large flowers, hardly otherwise.

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