PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / LAMIALES / SCROPHULARIACEAE / HEMIMERIDEAE / DIASCIA / MOLLIS
Diffuse annual herb, main stem up to 750 mm long, 3-4 mm diam., simple or branching low down into spreading panicles, glabrous becoming glandular-pubescent on the inflorescence axes. Leaves glabrous, mostly 16-50 x 18-40 mm, smaller upwards, ovate, apex acute to obtuse, base subcordate, margins often sharply serrate, occasionally only obscurely so; petiole 5-16 mm long. Flowers many in somewhat crowded or more lax and flagelliform racemes often compounded into panicles; lowermost bracts leaf-like, rapidly smaller upwards and then mostly 3-4 x 1-2 mm, lanceolate, acute to acuminate, mostly glandular-pubescent, hairs occasionally few or wanting; pedicels mostly 11-20 mm long, filiform, mostly wide-spreading, glandular-pubescent. Calyx segments lanceolate, very acute, glandular-pubescent, two anticous ones c. 3 x 0.751.25 mm, three posticous ones slightly smaller. Corolla tube c. 3 mm long, invaginated, two lateral spurs c. 3-5 mm long, curved downwards, with a patch of dark sessile glands within near the tips; limb c. 17 x 15 mm, anticous lobe c. 8-9 x 8-9 mm, two lateral lobes 3.5-5 x 4-6 mm, two posticous lobes c. 3 x 3-4 mm, all subrotund, rose-pink, sparsely glandular- pubescent outside, glabrous inside, without sessile glands on the palate, which is scarcely raised; “window” concave, c. 1.5 mm deep. Stamens projecting forward, filaments 3 mm long, glandular-puberulous; anthers 0.75-1 mm long, cohering strongly. Ovary 1.25-1.5 x 0.75-1 mm, ovules at least 6 in each loculus; style 2.25-2.5 mm long; stigma capitate, lying between the anthers. Capsules c. 4.5-6 x 2-3 mm; seeds 1.25 mm long, weakly ridged. From: Burtt, BL; Hilliard, OM. 1984. A revision of Diascia section Racemosa. J. S. African Bot. 50: 269-340. [CC BY]
Annual herb (sometimes flowering as a seedling), stems up to 1 m long; simple or basally branching. Leaves ovate, apex various; petioles 5-16 mm long. Flowers sometimes in dense racemes; pedicels mostly 11-20 mm long, spreading. Corolla: lobes rose to reddish pink, palate hardly raised; window single, deeply sunk in a larger hollow. Spurs ± 3-5 mm long, curving downwards. Flowering time Sept.-Mar., mainly Apr. From: Smithies, SJ; Bredenkamp, CL; Magwaza, ZL. 2019. Scrophulariaceae s.l.?. In: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(2): 1475-1538. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
It is easily distinguished from D. racemulosa by its glandular-hairy calyx, invaginated corolla tube, palate without dark sessile glands and longer filaments (3, not 2.5 mm) which project straight forward (not erect, the anthers partially hidden in the window). Diascia cordata also has the corolla tube invaginated and the filaments directed forwards, but its perennial habit, glabrous calyx, longer spurs (8-9 mm, not 3-5 mm) and shorter filaments (c. 2.25 mm, not 3 mm) easily distinguish it. From: Burtt, BL; Hilliard, OM. 1984. A revision of Diascia section Racemosa. J. S. African Bot. 50: 269-340. [CC BY]
It has been variously recorded as growing on and at the foot of cliffs close to the sea, in grassland, and in forest. It is clearly a rather delicate herb, so, in common with many of its congeners, it probably favours damp and somewhat sheltered places among the coarse grasses and bushes that are found marginal to forest patches, which, in Transkei, descend to the sea. From: Burtt, BL; Hilliard, OM. 1984. A revision of Diascia section Racemosa. J. S. African Bot. 50: 269-340. [CC BY]
Moist, sheltered places, such as on and near cliffs, in grassland, among rocks and in shrubs on forest margin; Sub-Escarpment Grassland, Sub-Escarpment Savanna, Indian Ocean Coastal Belt, Indigenous Forests. From: Smithies, SJ; Bredenkamp, CL; Magwaza, ZL. 2019. Scrophulariaceae s.l.?. In: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(2): 1475-1538. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
Libode and Port St. John’s in Transkei to Hogsback in the mountains almost due north of King William’s Town. From: Burtt, BL; Hilliard, OM. 1984. A revision of Diascia section Racemosa. J. S. African Bot. 50: 269-340. [CC BY]
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Occurrence in the Flora of Southern Africa (FSA) countries and South African provinces. Residence status indicates if a taxon is indigenous, endemic, naturalised or invasive in a specific region. This data is based on specimen records and literature
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Names and Sources
Diascia transkeiana Hilliard & B.L.Burtt
Classification
KINGDOM Plantae
SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae
PHYLUM Anthophyta
ORDER Lamiales
FAMILY Scrophulariaceae
TRIBE Hemimerideae
GENUS Diascia
SPECIES mollis
10 results for Diascia mollis Hilliard & B.L.Burtt
Barcode: PRE0164831-0 Collector(s) & number: Theron, GC, 1490 | 1953-3-6
South Africa, Eastern Cape, MQANDULI DIST.; COFFEE BAY; CLOSE TO SEA
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Barcode: PRE0656634-0 Collector(s) & number: Steiner, KE, 600 | 1984-2-22
South Africa, Eastern Cape, PORT ST.JOHNS; COFFEE BAY; SMALL COVE JUST NORTH OF OCEAN VIEW HOTEL
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Barcode: PRE0994553-0 Collector(s) & number: Steiner, KE, 3337 | 1999-4-15
South Africa, Eastern Cape, Transkei. Road to Mvuma Springs, 3.1 km E of main Umtata-Port St. John's road.
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Barcode: PRE0736473-0 Collector(s) & number: Snijman, DA, 1876 | 2002-1-20
South Africa, Eastern Cape, ± 5 km inland from Umgazi River Mouth, near Port St. Johns.
General notes: Forest margin. Localised, only a few plants seen flowering.
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Barcode: PRE0612053-0 Collector(s) & number: Wells, MJ, 3526 | 1966-2-20
South Africa, Eastern Cape, ELLIOTDALE DIST.; 5 MILES INLAND OF HOLE-IN-THE-WALL
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Barcode: PRE0656635-0 Collector(s) & number: Steiner, KE, 601 | 1984-2-22
South Africa, Eastern Cape, UMTATA; MQUANDULI; COFFEE BAY RD., 3.5 KM EAST OF TURNOFF TO WILO FOREST
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Barcode: PRE0723732-0 Collector(s) & number: Hutchings, A, 2108 | 1986-2-18
South Africa, Eastern Cape, TRANSKEI; MJIKA; NQADU FOREST
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Barcode: PRE0706099-0 Collector(s) & number: Phillipson, PB, 1499 | 1986-5-
South Africa, Eastern Cape, TRANSKEI; PORT ST. JOHNS DIST.; ROAD TO UMNGAZI MOUTH
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Barcode: NBG0278059-0 Collector(s) & number: Steiner, KE, 3337 | 1999-4-15
South Africa, Eastern Cape, Road to Mvuma Springs, 3.1 km E of main Umtata-Port St. John's road.
General notes: Alt. c. 380 m. Scattered in moist shaded areas on slopes above small stream in valley below road, vegetation including Euphorbia triangularis, Acacia sp., Solanum sp. and various Acanthaceae. Straggling up through shrubs to 1 m high, flowers pink with a yellow "window" at base of upper lip.
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Barcode: PRE0164789-0 Collector(s) & number: Grant, A, 3550B | 1927-12-30
South Africa, Eastern Cape, PORT ST. JOHNS DIST.; PUMBOA
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This map contains point-based occurrences at different locations
2019
SERIES CHAPTER
Scrophulariaceae s.l.? Smithies, SJ; Bredenkamp, CL; Magwaza, ZLIn: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(2)1475-1538
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria
1999
PERIODICAL/JOURNAL
A new species of Diascia (Scrophulariaceae) from the Eastern Cape (South Africa), with notes on other members of the genus in that region Steiner, KESouth African Journal of Botany 65(3)223-231
1988
PERIODICAL/JOURNAL
Notes on some plants of southern Africa chiefly from Natal: XIV Burtt, BL; Hilliard, OMNotes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh 45(1)77-94
1984
PERIODICAL/JOURNAL
A revision of Diascia section Racemosa Burtt, BL; Hilliard, OMJournal of South African Botany 50: 269-340
No results found for Diascia mollis Hilliard & B.L.Burtt
Status and criteria
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Assessor(s)
Plantae Coordinator
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Van Jaarsveld, E.J. 2014. Chlorophytum cremnophilum (Anthericaceae), a new caulescent succulent cliff-hanger from the Eastern Cape (RSA). Bradleya. 32:19-24
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Van Jaarsveld, E.J. 2017. Roosia: a new genus in the Aizoaceae from the Western Cape, South Africa. Bradleya. 35:150-158
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