MURALTIA Heisteria DC. [family POLYGALACEAE]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 79, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
MURALTIA Heisteria DC. [family POLYGALACEAE], Prod. 1. p. 335
Polygala Heisteria Linn. [family POLYGALACEAE], Thunb. Cap. p. 557. Bot. Mag. t. 340.
MURALTIA conferta E. M. [family POLYGALACEAE], ! in Pl. Drege. Drege, No. 7216, 7219.
Information
robust; branches pubescent; leaves fascicled, linear-subulate, keeled, patent or reflexed, pungent, rough-edged and sub-ciliate; fl. subsessile; sepals lanceolate, acute; petals spoon-shaped, nearly as long as the keel; capsule shorter than its subulate horns. A very rigid shrub, 1–3 feet high or more, densely branched; the branches spreading, virgate, with reddish bark. Leaves 3–4 lines long, thick, nearly triquetrous; sometimes downy. Flowers vivid purple, conspicuous, thickly studded along the twigs.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Common throughout the Colony, in dry rocky places; by road sides, &c. (Herb. T.C.D., &c.).
MURALTIA Heisteria DC. [family POLYGALACEAE]
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