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Agathosma imbricata

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Identification
Agathosma imbricata (L.) Willd. [family RUTACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for AGATHOSMA imbricata Willd. [family RUTACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 369, (1894) Author: (By W. SONDER.)
Names
AGATHOSMA imbricata Willd. [family RUTACEAE], ! enum. Berol. p. 259;—B. & W. l. c. p. 144.
Information
twigs pubescent or glabrate; leaves erect, imbricate, the lowest sometimes loose, ovate-acuminate, ciliate or pubescent; flowers sub-capitate; peduncles pubescent or glabrous; calyx lobes obtuse or sub-acute, keeled at the point, ciliate; the claw of the petals 2–3 times as long as the calyx, limb roundish or obovate; sterile filaments linear-spathulate, ciliate below. Erect, much branched, 3 feet or more high; twigs fastigiate, leafy. Leaves sparingly dotted beneath, flattish above, prominently nerved beneath, variable in pubescence, 1–3 lines; in δ., 4–5 lines long. Flowers numerous; pedunc. longer or shorter than the calyx, 2-bracted. Calyx 1 line long, glabrous or roughly pubescent. Petals with long claws pubescent at base, equalling the sterile filaments. Ovary pilose. Style glabrous. Capsule 2 lines long, the carpels hairy at the summit.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Cape flats and mountains round Capetown. In Zwartland, at Saldanha Bay and Hott. Holland; Tulbagh; Winterhoeksberg, &c. Thunberg.! E. & Z., Pappe, &c. Zey.! 298, 299. Drege. 1882, 7095, 7127. (Herb. Sond., T.C.D., &c.)
Notes
B. obtusata is only known to me from Hb. Wendland, but Sieber's plant is very near it, and only differs by the peduncles equalling the calyx. A. vestita, Willd., is certainly not specifically different, for the twigs, in the original specimen, are not glabrous, but glabrescent, and the peduncles are not always glabrous, but mostly downy or pilose at base. Many specimens of A. imbricata, collected in the Cape flats, belong to this variety.

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