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Alepidea ciliaris

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Name

Identification
Alepidea ciliaris F.Delaroche [family APIACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for ALEPIDEA ciliaris L. Roche [family UMBELLIFERAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 524, (1894) Author: (BY W. SONDER.)
Names
ALEPIDEA ciliaris L. Roche [family UMBELLIFERAE], Eryng. p. 19. t. 1
Astrantia ciliaris Linn. fil. [family UMBELLIFERAE], Suppl. 177. Thunb. Fl. Cap. 196.
Jasione Capensis Berg. [family CAMPANULACEAE], Act. Ups. 3. p. 187. t. 10.
Information
radical leaves petiolate, oblong, obtuse; cauline leaves smaller, stem—clasping; fruit densely muricate-tuberculate. Root fibrous. Stem 1–1 1/2 foot, erect, striate, somewhat branched. Petioles of the radical leaves 1–2 inches long, carinate, its leaves 1 1/2–3 inches long, 1/2–1 inch broad, coriaceous, toothed and ciliate; stem-leaves gradually smaller. Universal umbel of few rays. Involucel 4–6 lines in diameter, usually consisting of 5 ovate, mucronate, and 5 smaller, ovate-lanceolate leaflets. Flowers aggregate on a flat receptacle, white. Fruit subcompressed, 1 line long, crowned with the persistent calyx-lobes and the erect styles. Stylopodium depressed. Mericarps with 5, often obsolete, obtuse ribs. Albumen flat in front.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Hills and mountains (1–8000 ft.) in the districts of Uitenhage, Albany and George, on Katberg, Witbergen and Zuurebergen. Oct.-Feb. (Herb. Th. Hk. D. Sd.)

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