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Trichodesma physaloides

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Name

Identification
Trichodesma physaloides (Fenzl) A.DC. [family BORAGINACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for TRICHODESMA physaloides A.DC. [family BORAGINACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 2, (1904) Author: By C. H. WRIGHT.
Names
TRICHODESMA physaloides A.DC. [family BORAGINACEAE], in DC. Prod. x. 173
TRICHODESMA sp. Drège [family BORAGINACEAE], in Linnæa, xx. 197.
Friedrichsthalia physaloides Fenzl [family BORAGINACEAE], in Endl. Nov. Stirp. Decad. i. 53.
Information
stems annual from a perennial fleshy rootstock, 1–2 ft. high, glabrous; leaves usually opposite, sessile, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, with flat white discs on both surfaces, some of which bear hairs; panicle many-flowered; pedicels up to 9 lin. long; calyx inflated, 6 lin. long; lobes acuminate, cordate at the base, purple; corolla pure white (McLea), 1 in. diam.; lobes 6 lin. broad, shortly acuminate; anthers villous on the back; terminal awn longer than the anther-cells; nutlets smooth on the ventral side, margins inflexed and papillose-denticulate. null
Range
Also in tropical Africa.
Distribution
KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; near Pretoria, McLea in Herb. Bolus, 3107! Aapies River, Burke! Northern slopes of Magalies Berg, 6000–7000 ft., Zeyher, 1249! Burke, 98! Pilgrims Rest, Greenstock!

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