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Chironia peduncularis

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Name

Identification
Chironia peduncularis Lindl. [family GENTIANACEAE ]
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  • Chironia peduncularis

Flora

Entry for CHIRONIA rosacea Gilg [family GENTIANACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 1056, (1909) Author: By A. W. HILLand D. PRAIN.
Names
CHIRONIA rosacea Gilg [family GENTIANACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 104;—Schoch in Bot. Centralbl. Beih. xiv. 229 (as to Natal plant only).
CHIRONIA maxima Schoch [family GENTIANACEAE], in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2 me sér. ii. 1014 and in Bot. Centralbl. Beih. xiv. 220.
CHIRONIA peduncularis Benth. et Hook. f. [family GENTIANACEAE], Gen. Pl. ii. 805, not of Lindl.
Information
stems terete, generally branching upwards, leafy throughout, 1 1/2–3 ft. long; radical leaves vanishing, cauline in 6–8 remote pairs, ovate-lanceolate, acute, base cuneate, 2–4 in. long, 9–12 lin. wide; flowers in lax terminal panicles with branches 1 1/2–2 in. and peduncles 1–2 1/2 in. long, spreading; calyx 2 1/2–3 lin. long, divided half-way; lobes ovate, acuminate; corolla-tube cylindric rather longer than calyx; lobes ovate, obtuse to ovate-lanceolate, acute, entire, 9–10 lin. long, 3–4 (rarely 5) lin. wide; anthers slightly spiral; ovary oblong, acute, 3 1/2 lin. long. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Griqualand East; Clydesdale, Schlechter, 6618 partly! Pondoland; swampy stream-banks near Sangmeister, Bachmann, 1038! Natal, in swampy places; near Durban, Sanderson, 39! near the coast, Wood, 983! Nonoti, 500 ft., Wood! near the Tugela River, 500 ft., Wood, 3950! near Phœnix, 250 ft., Schlechter, 3151! 3154! Zululand; Inyezaan, below 1600 ft., Wylie in Herb. Wood, 596! 5948! 5928! Umlalaas, below 1000 ft., Wylie in Herb. Wood, 8453! and without precise locality, Mrs. McKenzie! Gerrard, 1475!
Notes
Gerrard's 1475 in Herb. Kew serves as a connecting link between this species, of which it has the broad leaves, and C. transvaalensis, of which it has the long calyx-lobes. C. maxima, Schoch, is based on a specimen which has, on the other hand, the calyx-lobes rather shorter than usual, but does not otherwise differ from normal C. rosacea; it is to this last form that Gerrard 1475 in Herb. Dublin belongs.

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