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Terminalia sericea

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Name

Identification
Terminalia sericea Burch. ex DC. [family COMBRETACEAE ]
Related name
  • Terminalia sericea

Flora

Entry for TERMINALIA sericea Burch. [family COMBRETACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 507, (1894) Author: (BY W. SONDER.)
Names
TERMINALIA sericea Burch. [family COMBRETACEAE], Cat. Geog. Afr. Austr. n. 2399;—DC. l. c. 13.
Information
leaves alternate, crowded at the tops of the branches, oblong, tapering at base and shortly petiolate, mucronulate, quite entire, clothed with silky, appressed hairs on both surfaces; spikes shorter than the leaves, pedunculate, ovate or oblong, silky; drupe broad-winged, reddish. Branches glabrous, dichotomous or trichotomous. Leaves oblong or obovate-oblong, narrowing into a short petiole, 2 1/2–3 inches long, nearly an inch broad. Spikes pedunculate, shorter than the leaves. Flowers small. Drupe glabrous, 1–1 1/4 inch long, 9–10 lines broad. Seed ovate, 4 lines long.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA On the Aapjesriver, Dec., Zey.! 548. (Herb. Sd., D., Hk.)

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