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Dischisma spicatum

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Identification
Dischisma spicatum (Thunb.) Choisy [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ]
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Entry for DISCHISMA spicatum Choisy [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 95, (1912) Author: By R. A. ROLFE.
Names
DISCHISMA spicatum Choisy [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Mém. Soc. Phys. Genèv. ii. ii. 94;—Choisy, Mém. Selag. 24; E. Meyer, Comm. 251, and in Drège, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 71, 73, 94, 179; Walp. Rep. iv. 149; Choisy in DC. Prod. xii. 7; Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 355.
Hebenstreitia spicata Thunb. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Prodr. 103.
Dischisma affine Schlechter [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xxvii. 187.
Information
annual, somewhat branched at the base; 3–6 in. high; branches densely pubescent; leaves linear or subspathulate, subobtuse, entire, glabrous, 1/2–2 in. long; spikes dense, many-flowered, 1–4 in. long; bracts 3 1/2 lin. long, with a broad lanceolate more or less lanate base, and an attenuate subobtuse and nearly glabrous apex; corolla white, 5 1/2 lin. long; tube slender; lobes oblong, 3/4 lin. long; fruit oblong, 1 1/4 lin. long. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Vanrhynsdorp Div.; Giftberg, 1500–2000 ft., Drège! Clan-william Div.; near Honig Vallei and Koude Berg, 3000–4000 ft., Drège.WESTERN REGION Little Namaqualand; in dry sandy plains at the mouth of the Orange River, Drège! on hills at 1500–2000 ft., Cape Herb.! Vanrhynsdorp Div.; Zout River, 450 ft., Schlechter, 8119!

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