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ISOGLOSSA Woodii C. B. Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE]

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 1, (1912) Author: By C. B. CLARKE.
Names
ISOGLOSSA Woodii C. B. Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE]
Information
stems and leaves sparingly hairy; leaves up to 5 by 2–3 in., ovate, acuminate, tapering into a petiole 1–2 in. long; inflorescences 2 by 1/3– 1/2 in., hardly interrupted, forming terminal panicles 2–4 in. in diam., and also remote axillary inflorescences; floral leaves 1/8– 1/5 in. long, obovate, suddenly contracted into a small acute tip; bracteoles 1/8 in. long, linear; calyx 1/8 in. long; segments linear, with many gland-headed hairs; corolla 1/3 in. long; capsule 1/3 in. long, stalked, with 4 tubercular-scabrous flattened seeds in the upper half. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; Inanda, Wood, 786! edges of woods, Berea, near Durban, 100–200 ft., Wood, 3945! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 1897!
Notes
“This plant does not flower every year; it is commonly believed to flower once in seven years only; this year, 1888, it has produced flowers in great abundance” (Wood).

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 1, (1912) Author: By C. B. CLARKE.
Names
ISOGLOSSA Woodii C. B. Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE]
Information
stems and leaves sparingly hairy; leaves up to 5 by 2–3 in., ovate, acuminate, tapering into a petiole 1–2 in. long; inflorescences 2 by 1/3– 1/2 in., hardly interrupted, forming terminal panicles 2–4 in. in diam., and also remote axillary inflorescences; floral leaves 1/8– 1/5 in. long, obovate, suddenly contracted into a small acute tip; bracteoles 1/8 in. long, linear; calyx 1/8 in. long; segments linear, with many gland-headed hairs; corolla 1/3 in. long; capsule 1/3 in. long, stalked, with 4 tubercular-scabrous flattened seeds in the upper half. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; Inanda, Wood, 786! edges of woods, Berea, near Durban, 100–200 ft., Wood, 3945! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 1897!
Notes
“This plant does not flower every year; it is commonly believed to flower once in seven years only; this year, 1888, it has produced flowers in great abundance” (Wood).

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 1, (1912) Author: By C. B. CLARKE.
Names
ISOGLOSSA Woodii C. B. Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE]
Information
stems and leaves sparingly hairy; leaves up to 5 by 2–3 in., ovate, acuminate, tapering into a petiole 1–2 in. long; inflorescences 2 by 1/3– 1/2 in., hardly interrupted, forming terminal panicles 2–4 in. in diam., and also remote axillary inflorescences; floral leaves 1/8– 1/5 in. long, obovate, suddenly contracted into a small acute tip; bracteoles 1/8 in. long, linear; calyx 1/8 in. long; segments linear, with many gland-headed hairs; corolla 1/3 in. long; capsule 1/3 in. long, stalked, with 4 tubercular-scabrous flattened seeds in the upper half. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; Inanda, Wood, 786! edges of woods, Berea, near Durban, 100–200 ft., Wood, 3945! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 1897!
Notes
“This plant does not flower every year; it is commonly believed to flower once in seven years only; this year, 1888, it has produced flowers in great abundance” (Wood).
ISOGLOSSA Woodii C. B. Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE]
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