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Agathosma thymifolia

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Type of Agathosma bicornuta R.A.Dyer [family RUTACEAE]
Type? of Agathosma thymifolia Schltdl. [family RUTACEAE]
Filed as Agathosma thymifolia Schltdl. [family RUTACEAE]
Type of Agathosma bicornuta R.A.Dyer [family RUTACEAE]
Type of Agathosma bicornuta R.A.Dyer [family RUTACEAE]
Agathosma lanceolata (L.) Engl. [family RUTACEAE]
Agathosma thymifolia Schltdl.
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Identification
Agathosma thymifolia Schltdl. [family RUTACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for AGATHOSMA thymifolia Schlecht. [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 thymifolia Schlecht. [family RUTACEAE], ! l. c. p. 205;—E. & Z.! 883.
Information
twigs glabrous; leaves patent, oval or obovate, obtuse, flat, glandular beneath; flowers umbellate; peduncles downy at base; calyx glabrous, its lobes oblong, obtuse, keeled; claws of the petals shorter than the calyx, glabrous; limb obovate-oblong, narrowed at base; sterile filaments linear-filiform, twice as long as the calyx, pilose at base; ovary and style glabrous. A span-high, erect, dichotomous, or with ternate or clustered branches and short twigs. Leaves 1–1 1/2 line long, 1 line wide, rather longer than the internodes, very smooth above, one nerved and with 4 rows of glands beneath, the marginal glands pellucid. Umbels 6–10 flowered, pedunc. 2–2 1/2 lines long, downy below or to the middle. Calyx lobes 3/4 line long. Petals 2 lines long, the claw half longer than the calyx. Fert. fil. longer than the petals, glabrous; sterile half as long. Style as long as the stamens.—Easily known from the preceding by the larger flowers and leaves.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Sand dunes near Saldanha Bay, E. & Z.! Groenekloof and Saldanha Bay, Drege! 7119, Aug.-Oct. (Herb. Sond.)

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