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Vellozia retinervis

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Name

Identification
Vellozia retinervis (Baker) Baker [family VELLOZIACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for VELLOZIA retinervis Baker [family VELLOZIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, page 171, (1897) Author: (By J. G. BAKER).
Names
VELLOZIA retinervis Baker [family VELLOZIACEAE]
Xerophyta retinervis Baker [family VELLOZIACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1875, 233; Gard. Chron. 1876, vi. 836, fig. 153; Regel, Gartenfl. xxvi. 161, t. 903.
Information
fruticose, reaching a height of many feet, with branches 1 1/2–2 in. diam., clothed with many sheaths of wiry, brown, parallel fibres with clathrate interspaces; leaves linear or linear-subulate, 1/2–1 ft. long, 1/12– 1/4 in. broad, closely and finely ribbed, smooth upon the margins and keel; peduncles 1–3-nate, stiffly erect, 3–5 in. long, not at all viscid, smooth except the very top; perianth-limb 1 1/2–1 3/4 in. long; segments purplish-white, lanceolate, neither glandular nor hairy outside; anthers linear, 3/4 in. long; ovary turbinate, 1/3 in. long, densely echinate with subulate, drab, wiry, ascending bristles; style cylindrical, as long as the anthers. null
Distribution
KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Magalies Berg, Burke! Zeyher, 1672! plains near Pretoria, 4100 ft., Bolus, 5802! hills near Pretoria, Rehmann, 4317! near Barberton, Galpin, 438!
Notes
Introduced into cultivation by Haage and Schmidt in 1876.

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