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Catophractes alexandri

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Identification
Catophractes alexandri D.Don [family BIGNONIACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for CATOPHRACTES Alexandri D. Don [family BIGNONIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 447, (1904) Author: By T. A. SPRAGUE.
Names
CATOPHRACTES Alexandri D. Don [family BIGNONIACEAE], in Ann. Nat. Hist. ii. (1839) 375;—Proc. Linn. Soc. i. (1839) 4; Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. (1841) 307, t. 22; DC. Prodr. ix. 233; Kuntze in Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berl. iv. (1886) 270; Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. x. 255; K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. iv. 3B, 233.
CATOPHRACTES Welwitschi Seem. [family BIGNONIACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1865, 331, t. 39.
CATOPHRACTES kolbeana Harv. [family BIGNONIACEAE], Gen. S. Afr. Pl. ed. ii. 276.
Information
an erect spiny shrub, 4–6 ft. high, branched from the base; branches divaricate, glabrous; leaves simple, fascicled, densely tomentose; petiole 1–2 1/2 lin. long; blade obovate or oblong, 1/3–1 1/4 in. long, 2–8 lin. broad, crenate, with conspicuous lateral veins; flowers lateral, fascicled; calyx densely tomentose outside; tube 1–1 1/2 in. long, shortly split down one side, ribbed; teeth 3–4 lin. long; corolla white; tube 2–2 1/2 in. long, with a broad villous band inside below the origin of the filaments; limb 1 3/4–2 1/2 in. across; lobes suborbicular, 9–14 lin. in diam.; filaments either adnate for their whole length or the upper 1/2 in. free; anthers 2 1/2–3 lin. long, their tips exserted from the corolla-tube; ovary ovoid, 1 1/2 lin. long, scabrous with scurfy thick-based hairs; style slightly longer than the stamens in the flowers with adnate filaments, slightly shorter in those with free filaments, very sparsely villous below the middle; capsule 1 1/2–3 in. long, 9–14 lin. broad, shortly beaked; nucleus of seed suborbicular; hyaline wing 2–3 lin. broad. null
Distribution
KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Todd!WESTERN REGION Great Namaqualand; Kei Kaap Desert, Alexander.

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