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MICROTEA tenuissima N. E. Br. [family PHYTOLACCACEAE]

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 454, (1912) Author: By A. W. HILL.
Names
MICROTEA tenuissima N. E. Br. [family PHYTOLACCACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1909, 134 Lophiocarpus tenuissimus Hook. f. [family ], in Hook. Ic. Pl. xv. 50, t. 1463, figs. 10–11; Baker & C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 96.
Information
annual, 4–11 in. high, slender; stems simple or branched from the base; leaves few, filiform, 1/2–1 in. long, mucronate; inflorescence spicate, 1 1/2–6 in. long; bracteoles 2–3 under each flower, about as long as the perianth; perianth-lobes 5, 1 lin. in diam., subregular, obovate, finely 1-nerved; stamens 3–4; filaments longer than the perianth; anthers subglobose, dorsifixed; ovary ovoid, warted, 1/2 lin. long; styles 2–4; fruit obovoid, 1 lin. long, muricate. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa.
Distribution
KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; near Pretoria, Rehmann, 4018! Kirk, 47! sandy places near Batsabelo, 5000 ft., Schlechter, 4058! in thickets near Potgieters Rust, 3800 ft., Bolus, 11010!

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 454, (1912) Author: By A. W. HILL.
Names
MICROTEA tenuissima N. E. Br. [family PHYTOLACCACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1909, 134 Lophiocarpus tenuissimus Hook. f. [family ], in Hook. Ic. Pl. xv. 50, t. 1463, figs. 10–11; Baker & C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 96.
Information
annual, 4–11 in. high, slender; stems simple or branched from the base; leaves few, filiform, 1/2–1 in. long, mucronate; inflorescence spicate, 1 1/2–6 in. long; bracteoles 2–3 under each flower, about as long as the perianth; perianth-lobes 5, 1 lin. in diam., subregular, obovate, finely 1-nerved; stamens 3–4; filaments longer than the perianth; anthers subglobose, dorsifixed; ovary ovoid, warted, 1/2 lin. long; styles 2–4; fruit obovoid, 1 lin. long, muricate. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa.
Distribution
KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; near Pretoria, Rehmann, 4018! Kirk, 47! sandy places near Batsabelo, 5000 ft., Schlechter, 4058! in thickets near Potgieters Rust, 3800 ft., Bolus, 11010!
MICROTEA tenuissima N. E. Br. [family PHYTOLACCACEAE]
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