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Thunbergia natalensis

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Identification
Thunbergia natalensis Hook. [family ACANTHACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for THUNBERGIA natalensis Hook. [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 natalensis Hook. [family ACANTHACEAE], Bot. Mag. t. 5082;—Harvey, Thes. Cap. i. 25, t. 38; T. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 18.
Information
thinly hairy or glabrate; stem shrubby, 2 ft. high, branched; leaves 2–4 in. long, oblong or elliptic, acute, cordate at the base, usually subentire but often sinuate-toothed and occasionally coarsely toothed, subhastate; petiole usually less than 1/8 in. long, sometimes 1/4– 1/2 in.; bracteoles 3/4–1 1/4 in. long, lanceolate, acute, veined; calyx-tube 1/6 in. long; lobes 5, shallow, ovate, hardly 1/10 in. long; corolla-tube 1–1 1/2 in. long, much inflated from 1/4 in. above the base, curved, yellowish; lobes 1/4– 1/3 in. long, ovate, blue; anther-cells short, with few beaded hairs, one cell in each of the two larger spurred at the base; style funnel-shaped at the top, margin with short triangular lobes; capsule 1 in. long, densely and minutely hairy. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Pondoland; Port St. John, Galpin, 3399! Natal; Hills near Pinetown, 1800 ft., Wood in MacOwan & Bolus Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 1337! Inanda, Wood, 284! Umzimkulu River, McNeil in Wood Herb., 1806! on the skirts of woody places at Attercliffe, Umhlali, and Maritzburg, 500–2500 ft., Sanderson, 169! Northdene, 400–500 ft., Wood, 4983! and without precise locality, Sanderson, 869! Gerrard, 75!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; by the river at Lydenberg, Wilms, 1216! Crocodile River, 4800 ft., Schlechter, 3911!

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