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HARPAGOPHYTUM Zeyheri Decne. [family PEDALIACEAE]
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 454, (1904) Author: By O. STAPF.
Names
HARPAGOPHYTUM Zeyheri Decne. [family PEDALIACEAE], in Ann. Sc. Nat. 5me sér. iii. 329
Information
stems like the whole plant minutely hispidulous and powdery glandular, from a few inches to more than 1 ft. long; leaves rotundate-ovate in outline, obtuse, shortly cuneate, irregularly toothed or shallowly lobed, 6–9 lin. long, 6–8 lin. broad, whitish beneath; petioles about 2 lin. long; pedicels up to 2 lin. long; calyx 2 1/2–4 lin. long; corolla 1 1/2 to nearly 2 in. long; tube narrow and cylindric for 4–6 lin. from the base, then very gradually widened, cylindric-funnel-shaped, 4 lin. wide just below the mouth; limb about 9 lin. across; lobes suborbicular, broader than long; fruit unknown. null
Distribution
KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Magalies Berg, Zeyher, 1205! Burke, 385!
Notes
I suspect this to be an extreme form of H. procumbens, characterized by small, slightly lobed or dentate leaves, smaller flowers and the copious development of small, rigid hairs of the same nature as those found in the young parts of H. procumbens. The colour of the corolla is evidently yellow in the lower, and more or less purple in the upper part.
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 454, (1904) Author: By O. STAPF.
Names
HARPAGOPHYTUM Zeyheri Decne. [family PEDALIACEAE], in Ann. Sc. Nat. 5me sér. iii. 329
Information
stems like the whole plant minutely hispidulous and powdery glandular, from a few inches to more than 1 ft. long; leaves rotundate-ovate in outline, obtuse, shortly cuneate, irregularly toothed or shallowly lobed, 6–9 lin. long, 6–8 lin. broad, whitish beneath; petioles about 2 lin. long; pedicels up to 2 lin. long; calyx 2 1/2–4 lin. long; corolla 1 1/2 to nearly 2 in. long; tube narrow and cylindric for 4–6 lin. from the base, then very gradually widened, cylindric-funnel-shaped, 4 lin. wide just below the mouth; limb about 9 lin. across; lobes suborbicular, broader than long; fruit unknown. null
Distribution
KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Magalies Berg, Zeyher, 1205! Burke, 385!
Notes
I suspect this to be an extreme form of H. procumbens, characterized by small, slightly lobed or dentate leaves, smaller flowers and the copious development of small, rigid hairs of the same nature as those found in the young parts of H. procumbens. The colour of the corolla is evidently yellow in the lower, and more or less purple in the upper part.
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 454, (1904) Author: By O. STAPF.
Names
HARPAGOPHYTUM Zeyheri Decne. [family PEDALIACEAE], in Ann. Sc. Nat. 5me sér. iii. 329
Information
stems like the whole plant minutely hispidulous and powdery glandular, from a few inches to more than 1 ft. long; leaves rotundate-ovate in outline, obtuse, shortly cuneate, irregularly toothed or shallowly lobed, 6–9 lin. long, 6–8 lin. broad, whitish beneath; petioles about 2 lin. long; pedicels up to 2 lin. long; calyx 2 1/2–4 lin. long; corolla 1 1/2 to nearly 2 in. long; tube narrow and cylindric for 4–6 lin. from the base, then very gradually widened, cylindric-funnel-shaped, 4 lin. wide just below the mouth; limb about 9 lin. across; lobes suborbicular, broader than long; fruit unknown. null
Distribution
KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Magalies Berg, Zeyher, 1205! Burke, 385!
Notes
I suspect this to be an extreme form of H. procumbens, characterized by small, slightly lobed or dentate leaves, smaller flowers and the copious development of small, rigid hairs of the same nature as those found in the young parts of H. procumbens. The colour of the corolla is evidently yellow in the lower, and more or less purple in the upper part.
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