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BORBONIA barbata Lam. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
BORBONIA barbata Lam. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], Dict. 2. p. 436. Ill. t. 610. f. 2.;—DC. Prod. 2. p. 120. Benth. in Lond. Journ. 2. p. 460. E. & Z.! 1211.
Information
robust, with corymbose branches; leaves very densely imbricated, broadly subulate, broader at base and sub-cordate, villoso-ciliate, many-nerved; flowers sub-capitate, on very short pedicels; calyces densely villoso-barbate. A coarse, furze-like bush, 1–2 feet high, with bare, woody stems, branched chiefly at the summit. Branches crowded, fastigiate, much divided, the young twigs hairy. Leaves 3/4 inch long, 1–2 lines wide at base, whence they taper to a very slender point, densely crowded, their bases 1 line apart; upper leaves broadest, the young ones villous, older glabrescent, except on the edges, especially towards their base. Flowers 3–4, sub-sessile at the ends of the branches, both calyx and corolla densely hairy. Lower leaves 5–7, upper 12–15 nerved.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Common on Table mountain, &c. (Herb., Hk., Bth., Sd., D.)
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
BORBONIA barbata Lam. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], Dict. 2. p. 436. Ill. t. 610. f. 2.;—DC. Prod. 2. p. 120. Benth. in Lond. Journ. 2. p. 460. E. & Z.! 1211.
Information
robust, with corymbose branches; leaves very densely imbricated, broadly subulate, broader at base and sub-cordate, villoso-ciliate, many-nerved; flowers sub-capitate, on very short pedicels; calyces densely villoso-barbate. A coarse, furze-like bush, 1–2 feet high, with bare, woody stems, branched chiefly at the summit. Branches crowded, fastigiate, much divided, the young twigs hairy. Leaves 3/4 inch long, 1–2 lines wide at base, whence they taper to a very slender point, densely crowded, their bases 1 line apart; upper leaves broadest, the young ones villous, older glabrescent, except on the edges, especially towards their base. Flowers 3–4, sub-sessile at the ends of the branches, both calyx and corolla densely hairy. Lower leaves 5–7, upper 12–15 nerved.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Common on Table mountain, &c. (Herb., Hk., Bth., Sd., D.)
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
BORBONIA barbata Lam. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], Dict. 2. p. 436. Ill. t. 610. f. 2.;—DC. Prod. 2. p. 120. Benth. in Lond. Journ. 2. p. 460. E. & Z.! 1211.
Information
robust, with corymbose branches; leaves very densely imbricated, broadly subulate, broader at base and sub-cordate, villoso-ciliate, many-nerved; flowers sub-capitate, on very short pedicels; calyces densely villoso-barbate. A coarse, furze-like bush, 1–2 feet high, with bare, woody stems, branched chiefly at the summit. Branches crowded, fastigiate, much divided, the young twigs hairy. Leaves 3/4 inch long, 1–2 lines wide at base, whence they taper to a very slender point, densely crowded, their bases 1 line apart; upper leaves broadest, the young ones villous, older glabrescent, except on the edges, especially towards their base. Flowers 3–4, sub-sessile at the ends of the branches, both calyx and corolla densely hairy. Lower leaves 5–7, upper 12–15 nerved.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Common on Table mountain, &c. (Herb., Hk., Bth., Sd., D.)
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