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TRIBULUS Zeyheri Sond. [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 351, (1894) Author: (By W. SONDER.)
Names
TRIBULUS Zeyheri Sond. [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE]
Information
leaflets in 6–8 pairs, sub-equal, obtuse; peduncle in the axil of the 2–3 times shorter leaf; petals nearly thrice as long as the calyx; stigma pyramidal, twice as long as the short style; carpels with 4 spines and prickly at back. Nearly allied to the preceding, especially to var. γ., with which it agrees in the silky-canescent leaves and smaller fruits, but differs in the peduncles twice as long, larger petals and stigma. Stems weak, 1–2 feet long, villous or glabrescent. Stipules ovato-lanceolate. Leaves unequal, one uncial, the other (from whose axil the peduncle springs) thrice as short. Leaflets 1 1/2–2 lines long, green above. Peduncles uncial. Sepals ovato-lanceolate, appressedly silky. Petals cuneate, 5–6 lines long. Style twice or thrice as short as the stigma, stigma 1 line long. Fruit smaller than a pea; the spines mostly unequal, the larger nearly 1/2 line long; tubercles numerous, hard, acute or sub-spinulous, mostly hairy.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Springbokkeel, Zey.! 272. Feb.-Mar. (Herb. Sond.)
Notes
This new species entirely agrees in habit with T. lanuginosa, Miq. in Metz. Pl. Ind. Or. No. 779, which nevertheless is known by its constantly 2-spined carpels, and long style. T. lanuginosus, L. Sp. p. 553, according to Burman's figure, and the specimen collected by Dr. Wight, is only T. terrestris. T. cistoides, L. is much more robust, and has larger leaves, flowers and fruits, besides a style 2 lines long, and a short, terminal stigma, by which character, as already stated by Schlechtendal in Bot. Zeit. 1851, p. 844, it is known from other Tribuli. T. cistoides occurs in S. America, Cape Verd, and in the East Indies.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 351, (1894) Author: (By W. SONDER.)
Names
TRIBULUS Zeyheri Sond. [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE]
Information
leaflets in 6–8 pairs, sub-equal, obtuse; peduncle in the axil of the 2–3 times shorter leaf; petals nearly thrice as long as the calyx; stigma pyramidal, twice as long as the short style; carpels with 4 spines and prickly at back. Nearly allied to the preceding, especially to var. γ., with which it agrees in the silky-canescent leaves and smaller fruits, but differs in the peduncles twice as long, larger petals and stigma. Stems weak, 1–2 feet long, villous or glabrescent. Stipules ovato-lanceolate. Leaves unequal, one uncial, the other (from whose axil the peduncle springs) thrice as short. Leaflets 1 1/2–2 lines long, green above. Peduncles uncial. Sepals ovato-lanceolate, appressedly silky. Petals cuneate, 5–6 lines long. Style twice or thrice as short as the stigma, stigma 1 line long. Fruit smaller than a pea; the spines mostly unequal, the larger nearly 1/2 line long; tubercles numerous, hard, acute or sub-spinulous, mostly hairy.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Springbokkeel, Zey.! 272. Feb.-Mar. (Herb. Sond.)
Notes
This new species entirely agrees in habit with T. lanuginosa, Miq. in Metz. Pl. Ind. Or. No. 779, which nevertheless is known by its constantly 2-spined carpels, and long style. T. lanuginosus, L. Sp. p. 553, according to Burman's figure, and the specimen collected by Dr. Wight, is only T. terrestris. T. cistoides, L. is much more robust, and has larger leaves, flowers and fruits, besides a style 2 lines long, and a short, terminal stigma, by which character, as already stated by Schlechtendal in Bot. Zeit. 1851, p. 844, it is known from other Tribuli. T. cistoides occurs in S. America, Cape Verd, and in the East Indies.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 351, (1894) Author: (By W. SONDER.)
Names
TRIBULUS Zeyheri Sond. [family ZYGOPHYLLACEAE]
Information
leaflets in 6–8 pairs, sub-equal, obtuse; peduncle in the axil of the 2–3 times shorter leaf; petals nearly thrice as long as the calyx; stigma pyramidal, twice as long as the short style; carpels with 4 spines and prickly at back. Nearly allied to the preceding, especially to var. γ., with which it agrees in the silky-canescent leaves and smaller fruits, but differs in the peduncles twice as long, larger petals and stigma. Stems weak, 1–2 feet long, villous or glabrescent. Stipules ovato-lanceolate. Leaves unequal, one uncial, the other (from whose axil the peduncle springs) thrice as short. Leaflets 1 1/2–2 lines long, green above. Peduncles uncial. Sepals ovato-lanceolate, appressedly silky. Petals cuneate, 5–6 lines long. Style twice or thrice as short as the stigma, stigma 1 line long. Fruit smaller than a pea; the spines mostly unequal, the larger nearly 1/2 line long; tubercles numerous, hard, acute or sub-spinulous, mostly hairy.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Springbokkeel, Zey.! 272. Feb.-Mar. (Herb. Sond.)
Notes
This new species entirely agrees in habit with T. lanuginosa, Miq. in Metz. Pl. Ind. Or. No. 779, which nevertheless is known by its constantly 2-spined carpels, and long style. T. lanuginosus, L. Sp. p. 553, according to Burman's figure, and the specimen collected by Dr. Wight, is only T. terrestris. T. cistoides, L. is much more robust, and has larger leaves, flowers and fruits, besides a style 2 lines long, and a short, terminal stigma, by which character, as already stated by Schlechtendal in Bot. Zeit. 1851, p. 844, it is known from other Tribuli. T. cistoides occurs in S. America, Cape Verd, and in the East Indies.
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