Aspalathus fusca Thunb.

국표에 없다.

• Prodr. Pl. Cap. : 125 (1800)

• This name is reported by Fabaceae as an accepted name in the genus Aspalathus (family Fabaceae).

  The record derives from ILDIS which reports it as an accepted name (record 6510 [mirror] )

 

Cite taxon page as 'WFO (2023): Aspalathus fusca Thunb. Published on the Internet;http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000211429. Accessed on: 18 May 2023'

Diagnostic Description

There is great variation in floral size, degree of thickness, flatness and sharpness of the leaflets, and of fusion of bract base with pedicel. The species is undoubtedly most closely related to A. subulata from which it differs in the glabrous calyx tube.

• Provided by: [A].e-Flora of South Africa

Morphology

An ascending or erect shrub or shrublet 0.2-1(-2) m tall, with rigid branches. Young branches densely white-tomentose; short-shoots often not developed in leaf axils on the young branches. Leaflets extraordinarily variable, from linear and subterete (or canaliculate) to obovate and flat, 3-12 x 1-2.5(-3) mm, usually broadest on apical half, carnose, stiff and mucronate and usually pungent. Inflorescence a head-like umbel of 2-12 flowers. Bract usually emerging near calyx base, linear-oblong or lanceolate, 4-5.5(-8.5) x 1.5-2.5 mm, acute-mucronate. Pedicel 1-3.5 mm long, short-tomentose. Bracteoles linear-lanceolate, 4-5.5(-6.5) x 0.7-1.4 mm, carnose, pointed. Calyx glabrous; lobes triangular (-subulate), 2-4.5 mm long, acuminate or mucronulate. Petals yellow or standard partly violet, somewhat carnose. Standard blade 7.5-11 x 6.5-11 mm, almost glabrous, pubescent at base of back. Wing blades 7-10 x (2.7-)3-4.5 mm. Keel blades, halfmoon-shaped or somewhat upcurved, 6.5-9 x 3.3-4.8 mm, obtuse, glabrous, with distinct basal pouch. Pistil: ovary pubescent on basal half; ovules (4-)6(-8). Pod 11.5-12 x 3.5-4 mm, slightly rugulose.

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Rigid shrub or shrublet to 2 m. Leaves 3-foliolate, leaflets linear-subterete to obovate, stiff, usually pungent, glabrous. Flowers in a terminal cluster of 2-12, yellow, standard partly violet, keel glabrous, calyx fleshy, glabrous, lobes triangular, bract fused with pedicel base.

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Habitat

Growing on sandstone outcrops (Table Mountain Sandstone rocks) in low fynbos vegetation.

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Lowland fynbos, to 500 m.

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Distribution

Distributed on mountains between Cape Hangklip and the Bredasdorp Mountain in the Caledon, Bredasdorp and Paarl Divisions. A find near Wemmershoek (Paarl Division) is a northern outpost.

• Provided by: [A].e-Flora of South Africa

Wemmershoek to Bredasdorp.

• Provided by: [A].e-Flora of South Africa

Aspalathus fusca Thunb. (worldfloraonline.org)

 

 

 

 

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