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STRIGA Forbesii Benth. [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
STRIGA Forbesii Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 364;—Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 503.
Buchnera Forbesii D. Dietr. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Syn. Pl. iii. 526.
Information
an erect herb, scabrid, greenish, simple or somewhat branched, annual, 1–2 ft. high; stem furrowed, leafy, comparatively robust, puberulous-scabrid, hispidulous towards the apex, not pubescent; middle internodes about equalling or exceeding the leaves; leaves opposite or subopposite, lanceolate or oval-oblong, obtuse or somewhat wedge-shaped at the sessile base, subherbaceous, scabrid on both faces and on the margin, otherwise glabrous, unequally dentate, 1–2 3/4 in. long, 1/4– 3/4 in. broad; flowers spicate, scarlet or orange, rather few, subsessile, about 1 in. long; spikes lax, elongating; bracts mostly much exceeding the calyx; bracteoles linear-subulate or sublanceolate, about 1/4– 3/8 in. long in flower, ciliolate; calyx narrow, about 1/2 in. long, hispidulous; tube about 1/5– 1/4 in. long, 10-ribbed; lobes 5, narrowly lanceolate or sublinear, 1/6– 1/3 in. long in flower, elongating in fruit; corolla-tube cylindrical, slender, sparingly puberulous, nearly 1 in. long, somewhat dilated and much curved near the apex; limb spreading; lobes obovate, 1/4– 3/8 in. long; throat finely pilose; capsules ovoid-oval, 1/3 in. long. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa and Madagascar.
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; at or near Krantz Kop, McKen, 24! Inanda, Wood, 8; 440! 7500! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 424!KALAHARI REGION Bechuanaland; by the Limpopo River, in Bakwena territory, about 3500 ft., Holub!
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
STRIGA Forbesii Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 364;—Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 503.
Buchnera Forbesii D. Dietr. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Syn. Pl. iii. 526.
Information
an erect herb, scabrid, greenish, simple or somewhat branched, annual, 1–2 ft. high; stem furrowed, leafy, comparatively robust, puberulous-scabrid, hispidulous towards the apex, not pubescent; middle internodes about equalling or exceeding the leaves; leaves opposite or subopposite, lanceolate or oval-oblong, obtuse or somewhat wedge-shaped at the sessile base, subherbaceous, scabrid on both faces and on the margin, otherwise glabrous, unequally dentate, 1–2 3/4 in. long, 1/4– 3/4 in. broad; flowers spicate, scarlet or orange, rather few, subsessile, about 1 in. long; spikes lax, elongating; bracts mostly much exceeding the calyx; bracteoles linear-subulate or sublanceolate, about 1/4– 3/8 in. long in flower, ciliolate; calyx narrow, about 1/2 in. long, hispidulous; tube about 1/5– 1/4 in. long, 10-ribbed; lobes 5, narrowly lanceolate or sublinear, 1/6– 1/3 in. long in flower, elongating in fruit; corolla-tube cylindrical, slender, sparingly puberulous, nearly 1 in. long, somewhat dilated and much curved near the apex; limb spreading; lobes obovate, 1/4– 3/8 in. long; throat finely pilose; capsules ovoid-oval, 1/3 in. long. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa and Madagascar.
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; at or near Krantz Kop, McKen, 24! Inanda, Wood, 8; 440! 7500! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 424!KALAHARI REGION Bechuanaland; by the Limpopo River, in Bakwena territory, about 3500 ft., Holub!
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
STRIGA Forbesii Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 364;—Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 503.
Buchnera Forbesii D. Dietr. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Syn. Pl. iii. 526.
Information
an erect herb, scabrid, greenish, simple or somewhat branched, annual, 1–2 ft. high; stem furrowed, leafy, comparatively robust, puberulous-scabrid, hispidulous towards the apex, not pubescent; middle internodes about equalling or exceeding the leaves; leaves opposite or subopposite, lanceolate or oval-oblong, obtuse or somewhat wedge-shaped at the sessile base, subherbaceous, scabrid on both faces and on the margin, otherwise glabrous, unequally dentate, 1–2 3/4 in. long, 1/4– 3/4 in. broad; flowers spicate, scarlet or orange, rather few, subsessile, about 1 in. long; spikes lax, elongating; bracts mostly much exceeding the calyx; bracteoles linear-subulate or sublanceolate, about 1/4– 3/8 in. long in flower, ciliolate; calyx narrow, about 1/2 in. long, hispidulous; tube about 1/5– 1/4 in. long, 10-ribbed; lobes 5, narrowly lanceolate or sublinear, 1/6– 1/3 in. long in flower, elongating in fruit; corolla-tube cylindrical, slender, sparingly puberulous, nearly 1 in. long, somewhat dilated and much curved near the apex; limb spreading; lobes obovate, 1/4– 3/8 in. long; throat finely pilose; capsules ovoid-oval, 1/3 in. long. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa and Madagascar.
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; at or near Krantz Kop, McKen, 24! Inanda, Wood, 8; 440! 7500! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 424!KALAHARI REGION Bechuanaland; by the Limpopo River, in Bakwena territory, about 3500 ft., Holub!
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