Entry for WALLERIA nutans Kirk [family TECOPHILAEACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, page 253, (1897) Author: (By J. G. BAKER).
Names
WALLERIA nutansKirk [family TECOPHILAEACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 497, t. 52, fig. 1
WALLERIA MackenziiBaker var. nutans [family TECOPHILAEACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 499.
Information
stem slender, 1/2–1 1/2 ft. long, decumbent at the base; leaves of the lower half of the stem small, rudimentary, of the upper half linear, sessile, alternate, ascending, 3–4 in. long; pedicels ascending, 1–2 in. long, cernuous at the apex, furnished with 1–2 linear foliaceous bracts; perianth with a greenish campanulate tube 1/6 in. long; segments lanceolate, acute, patent, 1/2 in. long, laxly 5–7-nerved; anthers more than half as long as the perianth-segments. null
Distribution
KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Houtbosch, Rehmann, 5811!
