Campanula.
Thankyou.
A very interesting story from the archives of how botanical collections are ‘lost & found’. The BSBI journal recently had a feature on a collection found in the Butler’s Pantry of a former country house. In that case too there were doubts about the collector. No doubt there are other collections in similar situations.
Campanula ciliata sounds such a likely name… the genus has lots of species that are hairy….and there is an accepted C. ciliata in What might be called the Russian Federation. Campanula ciliata Steven
I have a 1951 book (all black & white photos in those days) which attempts to cover all known species of Campanula, a genus which, in Crook’s view, is limited to plants of Northern hemisphere. He mentions Campanula ciliaris as a synonym of Roella ciliata but he does not cover the Roella genus. Presumably because it is Southern hemisphere genus and R. ciliata is even more limited in distribution (i.e. Cape).
I was in correspondance some years ago with a PhD student who was working on the taxonomy of the Campanula. I wonder if s/he completed….
I wanted to add a photo to this comment, but I can’t see a suitable icon.
EDIT: RE PHOTO, dejay helped and now I see the photo icon is button in the header of this comment box.
This site has some of the endemic Roellas: http://opus.sanbi.org/bitstream/20.500.12143/3779/1/Roella_PlantzAfrica.pdf
However I cannot yet distinguish R. ciliata from R. triflora, but it’s been rewarding journey to get here & maybe were not finished yet. …
Later EDIT: this document https://www.sanbi.org/sites/default/files/documents/documents/strelitzia-29-2012.pdf
Page 453 has descriptions. The difference between R. ciliata & R. triflora is that R. trifolia has a hairy ovary and that of R. ciliata is glabrous. I’m not sure that’s going to be a observable in most Roella posts on ispot.