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Walafrida saxatilis

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Name

Identification
Walafrida saxatilis (E.Mey.) Rolfe [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] Selago saxatilis E.Mey. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Walafrida saxatilis
  • Selago saxatilis

Flora

Entry for WALAFRIDA saxatilis 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 saxatilis Rolfe [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Selago saxatilis E. Meyer [family ], Comm. 269, and in Drège, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 54, 219; Walp. Rep. iv. 163; Choisy in DC. Prod. xii. 18.
Information
perennial, much branched, 1/2–1 ft. or more high; branches minutely puberulous; leaves in approximate fascicles, linear or oblong-linear, obtuse, nearly glabrous, 1/2–2 lin. long; spikes small, capitate or oblong, dense, laterally arranged on very short lateral branchlets in a compact somewhat elongated panicle towards the summit of the branches; bracts ovate-oblong, obtuse, rather fleshy, ciliate at the base, 3/4–1 lin. long; calyx 1/2– 3/4 lin. long; lateral lobes elliptic-oblong, obtuse, strongly ciliate; middle lobe very small or obsolete; corolla-tube oblong, 3/4 lin. long; lobes broadly-oblong, subequal, not half as long as the tube. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Colesberg Div.; among stones near Colesberg, 4500 ft., Drège! Shaw, 53! 56!KALAHARI REGION Griqualand West; Eitalers Fontein, Rehmann, 3347! Orange River Colony; Bloemfontein, Rehmann, 3895! 3896!SOUTH AFRICA without precise locality, Scott-Elliot, 537!

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