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Parinari capensis

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Name

Identification
Parinari capensis Harv. [family CHRYSOBALANACEAE ] Verified by Graham,R.A., Parinari capensis Harv. [family CHRYSOBALANACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Parinari latifolia
  • Parinari capensis
  • Parinari curatellifolia
  • Parinari pumila
  • Parinarium capense
  • Parinari unrecorded

Flora

Entry for PARINARI capensis Harv. [family CHRYSOBALANACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1960) Author: R. A. GRAHAM
Names
PARINARI capensis Harv. [family CHRYSOBALANACEAE], in Fl. Cap. 2: 596 (1862); R. Grah. in K.B. 1957: 230 (1957). Types: South Africa, unlocalized, Zeyher 537 (K, syn.!); Aaapjes River, Burke 518 (K, syn.!)
Information
A dwarf shrub, with very long branched rhizomes, and erect caespitose branched stems, often very short but up to 75 cm. tall, covered above with yellow or silvery hairs, glabrescent below. Leaves shortly petiolate, narrowly oblanceolate to oblong or oblong-elliptic, 4–11.5 × 1.5–5.8 cm., rounded (sometimes emarginate) to broadly obtuse, basally cuneate to rounded or cordate, glabrous and green above, thickly white-tomentose beneath; primary nerves 15–30 “pairs,” obvious on both surfaces. Inflorescence terminal, or axillary to the uppermost 1 or 2 leaves, paniculate, branched; panicles usually dense and shaggy with long ± spreading silvery or brown hairs; cymes commonly triflorous. Flowers 4–6.5 mm. long (from base of calyx). Calyx cup-shaped, ± abruptly and unilaterally gibbous, the lobes (1.5–)1.75–2(–3) mm. long, triangular. Filaments of fertile stamens 1.5–1.75(–2) mm. long; staminodes 0.5–1.0 mm. long. Style 3–3.5 mm. long, shaggy towards the base. Drupe subglobular or obovoid-globular, yellow when mature, but black and liberally spotted with light brown patches of cork when dried.

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