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BOWKERIA cymosa MacOwan [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
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 121, (1904) Author: By W. P. HIERN, F.R.S.
Names
BOWKERIA cymosa MacOwan [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 390, in note
BOWKERIA calceolarioides Diels [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 120.
Information
a leafy, bushy shrub, 8 ft. high; young stems downy; branches pubescent; leaves terete, lanceolate-oblong or ovate, acutely acuminate, obtuse or rounded at the shortly petiolate base, entire or serrulate, puberulous or glabrescent above, paler beneath and pubescent especially along the somewhat prominent veins, rugulose, 1–6 in. long, 1/3–2 in. broad; petioles 1/8– 1/4 in. long; cymes axillary, many-flowered, twice or thrice trichotomous, pubescent, bracteate, 1 1/4–3 in. long; bracts small, lanceolate, acute, 1/12– 1/8 in. long; pedicels bibracteolate, slender, 1/8– 2/3 in. long; flowers about 1/2 in. long; calyx hemispherical, 1/8 in. long; segments oval or roundly ovate, very obtuse, shortly pubescent, ciliate, 1/8– 1/6 in. long, 1/10– 1/8 in. broad; corolla white streaked with pink, red inside, 1/2 in. in diam.; upper lip subrotund, very obtuse, emarginate or shortly bifid, 1/6– 1/4 in. long, 3/10 in. broad; lower lip subglobose, inflated, recurved on the margin, 2/7– 3/8 in. long, 1/4 in. high, very shortly 3-lobed at the apex; two longer stamens exserted, 1/4– 1/3 in. long, with a dilated tooth near the base; two shorter stamens included, 1/12– 1/8 in. long; anthers reddish blue; ovary 2-celled; style 1/12– 1/7 in. long; capsule ovoid, minutely glandular, acute, 1/4– 1/3 in. long, 1/8 in. broad. null
Distribution
KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; in woods near MacMac, J. H. McLea in Herb. Bolus, 3001! Rimers Creek, near Barberton, 2900 ft., Thorncroft, 121 (Wood, 4163)! Highland Creek, near Barberton, 3500 ft., Galpin, 775! Spitzkop, near Lydenberg, Wilms, 1083! and without precise locality, Mrs. Saunders, 154 (Wood, 3891)!
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 121, (1904) Author: By W. P. HIERN, F.R.S.
Names
BOWKERIA cymosa MacOwan [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 390, in note
BOWKERIA calceolarioides Diels [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 120.
Information
a leafy, bushy shrub, 8 ft. high; young stems downy; branches pubescent; leaves terete, lanceolate-oblong or ovate, acutely acuminate, obtuse or rounded at the shortly petiolate base, entire or serrulate, puberulous or glabrescent above, paler beneath and pubescent especially along the somewhat prominent veins, rugulose, 1–6 in. long, 1/3–2 in. broad; petioles 1/8– 1/4 in. long; cymes axillary, many-flowered, twice or thrice trichotomous, pubescent, bracteate, 1 1/4–3 in. long; bracts small, lanceolate, acute, 1/12– 1/8 in. long; pedicels bibracteolate, slender, 1/8– 2/3 in. long; flowers about 1/2 in. long; calyx hemispherical, 1/8 in. long; segments oval or roundly ovate, very obtuse, shortly pubescent, ciliate, 1/8– 1/6 in. long, 1/10– 1/8 in. broad; corolla white streaked with pink, red inside, 1/2 in. in diam.; upper lip subrotund, very obtuse, emarginate or shortly bifid, 1/6– 1/4 in. long, 3/10 in. broad; lower lip subglobose, inflated, recurved on the margin, 2/7– 3/8 in. long, 1/4 in. high, very shortly 3-lobed at the apex; two longer stamens exserted, 1/4– 1/3 in. long, with a dilated tooth near the base; two shorter stamens included, 1/12– 1/8 in. long; anthers reddish blue; ovary 2-celled; style 1/12– 1/7 in. long; capsule ovoid, minutely glandular, acute, 1/4– 1/3 in. long, 1/8 in. broad. null
Distribution
KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; in woods near MacMac, J. H. McLea in Herb. Bolus, 3001! Rimers Creek, near Barberton, 2900 ft., Thorncroft, 121 (Wood, 4163)! Highland Creek, near Barberton, 3500 ft., Galpin, 775! Spitzkop, near Lydenberg, Wilms, 1083! and without precise locality, Mrs. Saunders, 154 (Wood, 3891)!
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 121, (1904) Author: By W. P. HIERN, F.R.S.
Names
BOWKERIA cymosa MacOwan [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 390, in note
BOWKERIA calceolarioides Diels [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xxvi. 120.
Information
a leafy, bushy shrub, 8 ft. high; young stems downy; branches pubescent; leaves terete, lanceolate-oblong or ovate, acutely acuminate, obtuse or rounded at the shortly petiolate base, entire or serrulate, puberulous or glabrescent above, paler beneath and pubescent especially along the somewhat prominent veins, rugulose, 1–6 in. long, 1/3–2 in. broad; petioles 1/8– 1/4 in. long; cymes axillary, many-flowered, twice or thrice trichotomous, pubescent, bracteate, 1 1/4–3 in. long; bracts small, lanceolate, acute, 1/12– 1/8 in. long; pedicels bibracteolate, slender, 1/8– 2/3 in. long; flowers about 1/2 in. long; calyx hemispherical, 1/8 in. long; segments oval or roundly ovate, very obtuse, shortly pubescent, ciliate, 1/8– 1/6 in. long, 1/10– 1/8 in. broad; corolla white streaked with pink, red inside, 1/2 in. in diam.; upper lip subrotund, very obtuse, emarginate or shortly bifid, 1/6– 1/4 in. long, 3/10 in. broad; lower lip subglobose, inflated, recurved on the margin, 2/7– 3/8 in. long, 1/4 in. high, very shortly 3-lobed at the apex; two longer stamens exserted, 1/4– 1/3 in. long, with a dilated tooth near the base; two shorter stamens included, 1/12– 1/8 in. long; anthers reddish blue; ovary 2-celled; style 1/12– 1/7 in. long; capsule ovoid, minutely glandular, acute, 1/4– 1/3 in. long, 1/8 in. broad. null
Distribution
KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; in woods near MacMac, J. H. McLea in Herb. Bolus, 3001! Rimers Creek, near Barberton, 2900 ft., Thorncroft, 121 (Wood, 4163)! Highland Creek, near Barberton, 3500 ft., Galpin, 775! Spitzkop, near Lydenberg, Wilms, 1083! and without precise locality, Mrs. Saunders, 154 (Wood, 3891)!
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