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Diospyros lycioides

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Identification
Diospyros lycioides Desf. [family EBENACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for Diospyros lycioides subsp guerkei [family EBENACEAE]
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Diospyros lycioides subsp guerkei [family EBENACEAE]
Common names
Royena guerkei Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 3, 2: 196 (1898); de Winter in Fl. PI. Afr. t. 1262 (1958). R. ambigua sensu Hiern in F.C. 4, 1: 455 (1906). R. lycioides subsp. guerkei (Kuntze) de Winter in Bothalia 7: 17 (1958).
Habitat
Usually fairly easily distinguished from the other subspecies by the prominent venation and the spreading pubescence of the leaves. Some specimens from the eastern Transvaal show intermediate characteristics between this and subsp. sericea. The berries, which have a jelly-like flesh, have been reported to have caused a mild form of poisoning in humans, but birds and dassies eat them apparently without ill effects, and some sources report them as edible.
Use
(c) subsp. guerkei (Kuntze) de Winter in Bothalia 7: 458 (1961). Type: Natal. Charlestown. O. Kuntze s.n. (NY, holo.).

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