Species Aspalathus spinosa
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Etymology of Aspalathus:
From aspalathos, a scented bush that grew in Greece, now in the related genus Astragalus.
Etymology of spinosa:
From the Latin spinosus = ‘thorny’
Scientific name:
Aspalathus spinosa L.
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Thorny shrub to 2 m, thorns lateral. Leaves 3-foliolate, leaflets terete to oblong. Flowers 1 or 2 in the thorn axils, yellow, partly red or purplish, keel glabrous, calyx usually adpressed-hairy, lobes reduced. Aug.--Mar. Lowland fynbos and renosterbos, 60--200 m, NW, SW, LB, SE (Olifants River Mts to Kwazulu-Natal).
Observations of Taxon
Aspalathus spinosa subsp. spinosa
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Hilda Mason (David)
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Aspalathus spinosa
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Pauline Bohnen (David)
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Aspalathus spinosa
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Mary Maytham Kidd (David)
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Aspalathus spinosa
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Auriol Batten (David)
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Aspalathus spinosa
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Lynda de Wet (David)
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