Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Common names
A. lactea Thunb. var. (("beta")) meyeri Harv., Fl. Cap. 2: 132 (1862). Type: as the preceding. 'A. lactea" auct. non Thunb., in E. Mey., Comm. 1: 58 (1836); Walp. in Linnaea 13:495 (1839); Benth. in Hooker, Lond. J. Bot. 7:643 (1848).
Information
An erect shrub or shrublet (? size), coÂpiously branched, with slender branches densely short-pubescent on the young parts. Leaflets linear, filiform, slender, 2,5-5 mm long and 0,3-0,4 mm thick, subterete, almost straight, weak, glabrous, rather pale yellow, acute. Inflorescences unifloral, on lateral short-shoots, dispersed along the branch ends in great numbers. Flowers small, narrow. Bract visible on the pedicel base 0,3-0,5 mm from its base, c. 0,2 mm long, tooth-like, adaxially puberu-lous. Pedicel 1-1,5 mm long, white-puberu-lous. Bracteoles shorter than 0,5 mm. Calyx campanulate-urceolate, attached in lower basal part; lobes distinctly set off from the tube, small, distant, 0,5-0,7 mm long, triangular or tooth-like, green, acute. Petals (?) light or pale yellow. Standard blade elliptic, 5-5,5 x c. 3,1 mm, subacute, subglabrous but basally pubesÂcent on each side of the base; claw very short (almost lacking). Wing blades linear, c. 3,5 x 1,2 mm, glabrous, with 2 longitudinal rows of lamella-like folds on the upper parts (claws c. 1,5 mm). Keel blades c. 3,6 X 1,7 mm, obtuse, glabrous (claws c. 1,5 mm). Pistil pubescent only on the upper part of the ovary base; ovules 2. Pod triangular-lanceolate, more than 9,5 x 3 mm, subglabrous (quite ripe pods not seen). Figure 88:1-9.
Use
170. Aspalathus obliqua Dahlg. in Op. bot. Soc. bot. Lund 9 (1): 283, 165 (1963); ibid. 11 (1): 130 (1966). Type: Cape, Onder-bokkeveld, between Grasberg River and Water-val, Calvinia Division, Drege (S, lecto.!; BM, G, K, L, LD, M, P, PRE, W, Z).
Range
Known only by the type, collected in the region north of Nieuwoudtville, on the plateau east of the escarpment, at 600-700 m altitude. Map 71.