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DALECHAMPIA capensis Spreng. f. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, Part 2, page 216, (1925) Author: (By N. E. BROWN, J. HUTCHINSON and D. PRAIN.)
Names
DALECHAMPIA capensis Spreng. f. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Tent. Suppl. ad Syst. Veg. 18;—Sond. in Linnæa, xxiii. 106, mainly; Baill. Adansonia, iii. 161; Müll. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1243, mainly but excl. syn. E. Meyer; Wood, Natal Pl. t. 515.
Information
a scandent undershrub; stems slender, pubescent, twining, springing from a woody base, 10–12 ft. long; leaves distinctly petioled, thinly membranous, simple, deeply 5-lobed with occasionally the external pair of lobes suppressed, lobes obovate, acute, their margin rather coarsely serrate, base cordate, 2–3 in. long, 3–4 in. wide, dull green, pubescent above, pubescent or villous beneath; petiole pubescent, 3/4–2 in. long; stipules ovate-lanceolate, spreading, pubescent, 2–2 1/2 lin. long; heads peduncled; peduncles pubescent, 1–3 in. long; involucral bracts large, yellowish-green, 1 1/2 in. long, 1 1/2–1 3/4 in. wide, shallow-cordate, deeply 3-lobed, sometimes the upper bract 5-lobed; lobes ovate-lanceolate, acute, their margin distinctly and closely toothed; male bracts shortly lacinulate, each lobule glandular-capitate; male calyx glabrous, lobes ovate, acute; female calyx-segments narrow-lanceolate, densely pinnately lacinulate on each side, lacinulæ slender, glandular, scabrous; ovary puberulous; style columnar, cylindric, lobulate and dilated at the tip; capsule nearly glabrous, 1/3 in. across; cocci subglobose; seeds globose. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Port Elizabeth Div.; Port Elizabeth, Miss West, 22! Uitenhage Div.; near Uitenhage, Burchell, 4244! Zeyher, 3846! Enon, Zeyher! Drège! Baur, 1044! Klein Place, Prior! Krakakamma, Zeyher, 1189! Tzamas, Schlechter, 2597! Alexandria Div.; between Hoffmanns Kloof and Driefontein, Drège! Bathurst Div.; near Kaffir Drift, Burchell, 3862! between Kasuga River and Port Alfred, Burchell, 3969! Theopolis, Bergius! Glenfilling, Drège, 2429! Port Alfred, Mrs. Hutton, 557! Albany Div.; near Grahamstown, Atherstone, 71! Bolton! Miss Bowker! MacOwan, 438! and in Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr. 511! Fort Beaufort Div.; Fort Armstrong, Fraser! Peddie Div.; Fredericksburg, Gill! King Williamstown Div.; near King Williamstown, Hutton, 96! Keiskamma, Mrs. Hutton! East London Div.; Cambridge, Miss Wormald, 34! Komgha Div.; Prospect Farm, 2100 ft., Flanagan, 433! British Kaffraria, Cooper, 341!EASTERN REGION Transkei; Kentani, Miss Pegler, 268! Pondoland; Kletterstroom, Bachmann, 768! 769! 770! Beyrich, 287! Natal; Colenso, Rehmann, 7146! Inchanga, Rehmann, 7922! Herb. Marloth, 4088! Inanda, Wood, 595! Avoca, 200 ft., Schlechter, 3015! Dumisa, 1600 ft., Rudatis, 274! Mariannhill Trappist Colony, Landauer, 233! Bellair, Wood, 11066!KALAHARI REGION Bechuanaland; Mafeking, Herb. Marloth! Transvaal; Shiluvane, Junod, 539! 2381! Lydenberg, Wilms, 1341, partly! Warm Bath, Burtt-Davy, 2316! 5564! Moorddrift, Miss Leendertz, 2130! Crocodile River Drift, Bolus, 9780! Concession Creek, 2600–3000 ft., Galpin, 839! Thorncroft, 320! Middelburg, Kässner, 1328! Pretoria, Scott Elliot, 1424!
DALECHAMPIA capensis Spreng. f. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
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