Species Aspalathus spinescens
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Etymology of Aspalathus:
From aspalathos, a scented bush that grew in Greece, now in the related genus Astragalus.
Etymology of spinescens:
From the Latin spina = 'spine', 'thorn', 'prick' or 'prickle' and -escens = 'becoming like'; i.e. the thorns are incompletely formed
Scientific name:
Aspalathus spinescens Thunb.
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Rigid, thorny shrub or shrublet, 0.6--2 m. Leaves 3-foliolate, leaflets ovoid to cylindric. Flowers scattered, pale or bright yellow, keel silky, calyx subglabrous, lobes reduced. Sept.--Oct. Coastal fynbos, 40--560 m, NW, SW (Vredendal to Mamre).
Observations of Taxon
Aspalathus spinescens subsp. lepida
Name of observer:
Riaan de Villiers (David)
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Aspalathus spinescens
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Name of observer:
Nick Helme (David)
Date observed:
09/09/2009 - 12:25pm
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Aspalathus spinescens
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Lynda de Wet (David)
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