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Walafrida paniculata

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Identification
Isotype of Selago kurtdinteri Hilliard [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Hilliard, O.M., 1996 Walafrida paniculata (Thunb.) Rolfe [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] Verified by D. Overkott, 1961
Related name
  • Selago choisiana
  • Selago amboensis
  • Selago paniculata
  • Selago dinteri
  • Selago cecilae
  • Walafrida cecilae
  • Walafrida paniculata
  • Selago lacunosa
  • Selago kurtdinteri

Flora

Entry for WALAFRIDA paniculata Rolfe [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 95, (1912) Author: By R. A. ROLFE.
Names
WALAFRIDA paniculata Rolfe [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Selago paniculata Thunb. [family ], Prodr. 99, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 462; Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii. 745; Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 353.
Selago choisiana E. Meyer [family ], Comm. 268, and in Drège, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 62, 219; Walp. Rep. iv. 163; Choisy in DC. Prod. xii. 18.
Selago amboensis Rolfe [family ], in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. v. 272.
Information
perennial, much branched, 1/2–2 ft. or more high; branches minutely puberulous, more or less flexuose; leaves more or less fascicled, linear or linear-oblong, subobtuse, glabrous or nearly so, 1 1/2–8 lin. long; spikes ovoid or oblong, usually dense, laterally arranged on short branchlets and forming elongated narrow panicles towards the summit of the branches; bracts oblong or ovate-oblong, obtuse, nearly glabrous, 3/4–1 lin. long; calyx 1/3– 1/2 lin. long; lateral lobes oblong, obtuse, ciliate; the middle lobe very small or often absent; corolla white (Bowker); tube oblong, 1/2 lin. long; lobes elliptic-oblong or rounded, shorter than the tube; fruit ovoid, somewhat compressed, 1/3 lin. long. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa.
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Sutherland Div.; at the Great Reed River, Burchell, 1365! Beaufort West Div.; near Rhenoster Kop, 3000 ft., Drège! Graaff Reinet Div.; near Graaff Reinet, 2500 ft., Bolus, 293! Bowker! Colesberg Div.; Colesberg, Shaw, 50! 51! 52! 55! Albert Div.; Cooper, 655!COAST REGION Clanwwilliam Div.; at Oliphants River and near Villa Brackfontein, Ecklon & Zeyher, 33! 69! Mossel Bay Div.; in the dry channel of an arm of the Gauritz River, Burchell, 6460!EASTERN REGION Tembuland; Imvane, Baur, 81!KALAHARI REGION Griqualand West; between Kuruman and the Vaal River, Cruikshank, in Bolus Herb., 293! Klipdrift, Barber! Kimberley, Rehmann, 3435! and without precise locality, Rehmann, 3430! Vaal River, Nelson, 164! Orange River Colony; bed of Umdelu River, Mrs. Bowker, 474! and without precise locality, Hutton! Bechuanaland; Batlapin Territory, Holub!WESTERN REGION Namaqualand, without precise locality, Wyley!
Notes
A polymorphic and widely-diffused species, if all the above are correctly referred here.

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