Entry for Metarungia galpinii [family ACANTHACEAE]
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Metarungia galpinii [family ACANTHACEAE]
Common names
Macrorungia galpinii C. Baden: 150 (1981).
Information
Shrubs. Branches when young woolly to densely woolly on two sides and woolly, villous or velutinous on other two sides; older branches more sparsely haired. Leaves glabrate, veins woolly to pilose, sessile or subsessile, narrowly elliptic to narrowly obovate, 90-190 x 35-68 mm; margin minutely involute. Flowers in spikes 70-170 mm long. Fertile bracts pubescent, ovate, 25-41 x 15-21 mm, with membranous margin pale and 3 mm wide. Bracteoles absent. Calyx velutinous, nerves densely velutinous, 15-25 mm long; lobes oblong to elliptic, 9-20 x 3-5 mm. Corolla pilose to velutinous, 50-58 mm long; tube 19-23 mm long; upper lip 31-34 x 10-11 mm; lower lip 28-32 x 7-9 mm. Stamens 23-30 mm long; anthers 5.5-7.0 mm long. Pistil: ovary densely strigose near apex, 3 mm long; style 47-57 mm long. Capsule sparsely sericeous to sericeous, longer than 23 mm. Seeds 4x3 mm. Figure 1.
Use
2. Metarungia galpinii (C Baden) C Baden in Kew Bulletin 39,3: 638 (1984). Type: Cape Province, East London, in forest at Gulu River, March 1929, Galpin 9526 (PRE, hole; K, iso.).
Range
Endemic to the eastern Cape Province, known only from the East London district; occurs in forest along rivers, below 500 m above sea level. Map 1.
