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Urtica caffra

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Name

Identification
Urtica caffra Thunb. [family URTICACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Didymodoxa caffra (Thunb.) Friis & Wilmot-Dear [family URTICACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
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  • Urtica caffra
  • Didymodoxa caffra

Flora

Entry for AUSTRALINA acuminata Wedd. [family URTICACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, Part 2, page 541, (1925) Author: (By N. E. BROWN.)
Names
AUSTRALINA acuminata Wedd. [family URTICACEAE], in Ann. Sc. Nat. 4 me sér. i. 212
Parietaria cuneata E. Meyer [family URTICACEAE], in Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 133, 143.
Urtica caffra Thunb. [family URTICACEAE], Prodr. 31, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 155; see N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1913, 80.
Fleurya capensis Wedd. [family URTICACEAE], in Ann. Sc. Nat. 4 me sér. i. 183, not of Monogr. Urtic. 117.
Didymodoxa acuminata Wedd. [family URTICACEAE], Monogr. Urtic. 549.
Didymodoxa cuneata Wedd. [family URTICACEAE], in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 235 61.
Information
an annual herb 1–2 ft. high; stem 3/4–1 lin. thick at the base, branching, 4-grooved, with rounded angles, puberulous; leaves alternate; petioles up to 1 1/3 in. long; blades 1/3–2 3/4 in. long, 1/6–1 1/2 in. broad, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, cuneate at the base, with 6–12 teeth on each side and the terminal tooth (at least of the uppermost leaves) 2–3 times as long as broad, thinly pubescent on both sides; stipules 1 1/4–3 lin. long, broadly ovate, with a long awn-like point, membranous, tipped at the apex of the awn with 2–3 long hairs; flower-clusters 3/4–1 1/2 lin. in diam.; perianth of the male flowers 3/4 lin. long, its subulate point tipped with 2–4 long hairs; female flowers 1 lin. long, pubescent; stigma very small, about 1/4 lin. long, filiform, curved. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div.; on Bosch Berg, Burchell, 3144! 3212! Bolus, 1813! Cradock Div.; near Cradock, Cooper, 3518!COAST REGION Uitenhage Div.; by the river near Enon, Drège, b! Stutterheim Div.; forest at Fort Cunynghame, 3300 ft., Galpin, 2443! King Williamstown Div.; Yellowwood River, Drège, a! Queenstown Div.; mountain side, Bowkers Park, 4000 ft., Galpin, 2605!EASTERN REGION Natal; Durban Flats, Wood, 1970! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 265!KALAHARI REGION Orange River Colony; Bloemfontein, Rehmann, 3835!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg!
Notes
Probably Parietaria cuneata, Eckl. & Zeyh. ex Hochst. in Flora, 1845, 88, and in Krauss, Beitr. Fl. Capund Natal. 151, belongs here, and that “Eckl. & Zeyh.” is merely an error for the authority E. Meyer. It was collected near Knysna, Krauss, 1827, but I have not seen a specimen.

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