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LOBOSTEMON glaber Buek [family BORAGINACEAE]

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 2, (1904) Author: By C. H. WRIGHT.
Names
LOBOSTEMON glaber Buek [family BORAGINACEAE], in Linnæa, xi. 137;—DC. Prod. x. 5. LOBOSTEMON Dregei DC. [family BORAGINACEAE], in DC. Prod. x. 6. Echium falcatum Lam. [family BORAGINACEAE], Ill. i. 413. Echium glabrum Vahl [family BORAGINACEAE], Symb. iii. 22; Drège, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 70, not of Thunb. Echium Vahlii Roem. & Schultes [family BORAGINACEAE], Syst. Veg. iv. 14, 715.
Information
shrubby; branches glabrous, slightly angular when young; leaves narrowly lanceolate, sessile, scabrid on the margins, under side of the midrib and near the apex on the upper surface, glabrous elsewhere; spikes terminal, few-flowered, leafy; calyx 3 lin. long, lobed nearly to the base; lobes 2/3 lin. wide, oblong-lanceolate, ciliate, veins distinctly reticulate; corolla 6 lin. long; tube campanulate; lobes rounded, imbricate below; stamens unequal, the longest exserted. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Clanwilliam Div.; between Grasberg River and Watervals River, 2500–3000 ft., Drège!COAST REGION Clanwilliam Div.; Zekoe Vley, 500 ft., Schlechter, 8574! Malmesbury Div.; Zwartland, fide Buek. Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Ecklon; Cape Flats, near Tyger Berg, Bolus, 5205! Wynberg Hill, Wolley Dod, 2077! Paarl Div.; Paarlberg, 1500 ft., Drège, 7843a.SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Zeyher, 1243 partly!WESTERN REGION Little Namaqualand; Scully, 1324! between Pedros Kloof and Lily Fontein, 3000–4000 ft., Drège!
LOBOSTEMON glaber Buek [family BORAGINACEAE]
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