Species Polygala microlopha
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Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Polygala:
Gk. poly = much; gala = milk; so-called from the belief that cattle grazing in fields with this plant produced more milk. (San Marcos growers in the United States claim that Polygala virgata ‘Portola’ has this property but the authors could find no scientific evidence).
Scientific name:
Polygala microlopha DC.
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Unknown
Protologue:
Prodr. (DC.) 1: 322 (1824)
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Year published:
1824
Sparsely leafy shrub to 60 cm. Leaves leathery, linear to elliptic, usually shortly ciliate. Flowers in short, terminal umbel-like racemes, purple, side petals unequally bilobed with the lower lobe linear and elongate, crest of the keel reduced and short. Mainly Aug.--Nov. Rocky sandstone and clay slopes, KM, LB, SE (Montagu to E Cape).
Observations of Taxon
Polygala microlopha
Locality:
Name of observer:
Auriol Batten (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Collection:
Polygala microlopha
Locality:
Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
27/08/2012 - 3:20pm
Collection:
Polygala microlopha
Locality:
Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
25/08/2013 - 5:35pm
Collection:
Polygala microlopha
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Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
20/01/2008 - 2:14pm
Collection:
Polygala microlopha
Name of observer:
Cameron McMaster (David)
Date observed:
20/01/2008 - 2:14pm
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