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Heliophila cinerea [family BRASSICACEAE]

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Heliophila cinerea [family BRASSICACEAE]
Common names
H. incana Ait., Hort. Kew. ed. 1, 2 : 397 (1789), excl. ref. Laur. Burm. in Nov. Act. Reg. Soc. Sci. Upsal. 1 : 94,1.7(1773), non Burm. f.(1768);Sond.in F.C. 1 : 53 (I860), excl. syn. Lam.; Adamson in Fl. Cape Penins. 418 (1950). Type : Masson s.n. (BM!).
Information
Perennial herbs, woody at the base; branches decumbent or erect, up to 60 cm high; stem densely hirsute. Leaves 0-8-3-5 cm long, 2-12 mm broad, oblong, narrowly obovate or spathulate, rounded or acute, densely hirsute. Racemes terminal, many-flowered, the rhachis thinly hirsute. Pedicels hairy; in flower c. 6 mm long, erect; in fruit c. 1 cm long, erect. Sepals 8-10 mm long, oblong, densely hirsute, especially when young; all saccate, the inner 2 strongly; all cucullate and thickened at the apex. Petals 11-5 mm long, 5 mm broad (and probably bigger) elliptic or ± oblong above the claw, each with a large papillate appendage. Filaments 3 • 5-5 mm and 4-5 • 5 mm long,the 2 short ones each with a papillate appendage. Anthers 2-5-2-8 mm long. Ovary linear, densely hirsute; ovules 32-40. Fruits 6-8 cm long, 2-5-3 mm broad, linear; valves shortly and thinly hirsute, glabrescent, 3-nerved; base of the style globose with a thin point, as wide as the valves, 2-5-5 mm long.
Habitat
According to the Flora of the Cape Peninsula, the flowers are deep blue and the fruits almost cylindrical but, judging by the cited specimens and notes by collectors, the flowers are lavender, bluc-mauve or cobalt-blue, and the fruits are compressed.
Use
43. Heliophila cinerea Marais, nom. nov.
Range
Known only from the shore of the southern tip of the Peninsula.

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Heliophila cinerea [family BRASSICACEAE]
Common names
H. incana Ait., Hort. Kew. ed. 1, 2 : 397 (1789), excl. ref. Laur. Burm. in Nov. Act. Reg. Soc. Sci. Upsal. 1 : 94,1.7(1773), non Burm. f.(1768);Sond.in F.C. 1 : 53 (I860), excl. syn. Lam.; Adamson in Fl. Cape Penins. 418 (1950). Type : Masson s.n. (BM!).
Information
Perennial herbs, woody at the base; branches decumbent or erect, up to 60 cm high; stem densely hirsute. Leaves 0-8-3-5 cm long, 2-12 mm broad, oblong, narrowly obovate or spathulate, rounded or acute, densely hirsute. Racemes terminal, many-flowered, the rhachis thinly hirsute. Pedicels hairy; in flower c. 6 mm long, erect; in fruit c. 1 cm long, erect. Sepals 8-10 mm long, oblong, densely hirsute, especially when young; all saccate, the inner 2 strongly; all cucullate and thickened at the apex. Petals 11-5 mm long, 5 mm broad (and probably bigger) elliptic or ± oblong above the claw, each with a large papillate appendage. Filaments 3 • 5-5 mm and 4-5 • 5 mm long,the 2 short ones each with a papillate appendage. Anthers 2-5-2-8 mm long. Ovary linear, densely hirsute; ovules 32-40. Fruits 6-8 cm long, 2-5-3 mm broad, linear; valves shortly and thinly hirsute, glabrescent, 3-nerved; base of the style globose with a thin point, as wide as the valves, 2-5-5 mm long.
Habitat
According to the Flora of the Cape Peninsula, the flowers are deep blue and the fruits almost cylindrical but, judging by the cited specimens and notes by collectors, the flowers are lavender, bluc-mauve or cobalt-blue, and the fruits are compressed.
Use
43. Heliophila cinerea Marais, nom. nov.
Range
Known only from the shore of the southern tip of the Peninsula.
Heliophila cinerea [family BRASSICACEAE]
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