Muraltia knysnaensis ( Evie seen Herolds Bay West)https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/51076796#activity_comment_a8f46db1-59a9-4468-9ea1-83f877fc21eb
Muraltia knysnaensis
Muraltia knysnaensis
Garden Route Purplegorse
Levyn's description below.
Her drawing shows the leaves as shortly spine tipped, and it fits in all other respects.
Muraltia knysnaensis
An undershrub, 10 — 20 cm. high, branching chiefly near ground level.
Young stems puberulous. Leaves usually solitary, occasionally imper-
fectly fasciculate: the primary 5-0 — 12-0 mm. long, acicular, linear or
sometimes ovate on the flowering branches, ciliate when young, other-
wise glabrous, fiat or channelled above, rounded below: the secondary
much smaller. Bracts 1-0 — 1-3 mm. long, ovate or oblong, concave,
obtuse. Flowers 6-0 — 7-0 mm. long, pink, sessile. Sepals glabrous,
obtuse or sub-acute, apiculate: the outer ovate, concave, non-ciliate or
sparsely ciliate: the inner elliptical, almost flat, ciliate, the apiculus well
developed, about half as long as the side petals. Side petals linear or
lanceolate, longer than the carina, narrowing somewhat abruptly into
an obtuse slender tongue-like tip. Claw of the carina a little shorter
than the limb: the line of attachment of the crest more or less vertical,
of medium length, the width of the crest less than the length of the carina,
the upper and lower lobes somewhat similar. Ovary shortly hairy on the
top, the horns long, very slender: the style slender, the anterior branch
minute, the posterior long and narrow, making an obtuse angle with the
style: the stigma oblique. Capsule ovoid, rough or shortly hairy above,
almost completely hidden by the calyx: the horns slender, as long as or
slightly shorter than the capsule. Seed globose or nearly so, hispidulous,
the caruncle with broad membranous lobes.
M . knysnaensis occurs on dry flats and hill slopes.
evieb commented
1y
Gosh - super to be given all those technical details. Generally so difficult for us "ciizen scientists " to find and access such information.
Many thanks Andrew.
andrewm commented
1y
i think we are all intimidated by Muraltias. :). I know I am. I was lucky to find her book online which can be downloaded here: https://archive.org/details/botanysupplement02unse
It makes me feel much more comfortable doing ids.
Matt Fainmann and I are doing a key where I have synthesised the info from Levyns with Cape Plants and put it in a spreadsheet. Matt is doing the wizzardly stuff to turn the spreadsheet into a key which links it to verified obs on i-Nat. It will hopefully be ready quite soon. Once it is up and running he will link it to the other keys which he has moved from I-Spot to here: https://inatkey.herokuapp.com/
Regards
Andrew
evieb commented
3mo
Thanks Andrew- good luck .
@knysna_wildflowers
useful info.
knysna_wildflowers commented
3mo
Tx - yes - will be a big help. The biggest issue with id of muraltia is that you need the flower detail and the flowers are SMALL. So most photographs are not that useful......
knysna_wildflowers commented
3mo
I think M knysnaensis and M ericoides are often mixed - need to find a solid way of distinguishing the two.
andrewm commented
1d
I have looked for differences in the descriptions and there is really not a difference. Perhaps (but not certain) is that knysnaensis seems to have the flowers all the way down the flowering stem, whereas the one and only ericoides I have found here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/66476673 has the flowers more at the top.
knysna_wildflowers commented
1d
I have id a few M ericoides in the eastern False Bay area - they seem to have quite a recognisable habit there.....
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