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Acalypha sonderiana

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Isolectotype of Acalypha petiolaris Sond. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Type of Acalypha sonderiana Müll.Arg. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Syntype of Acalypha petiolaris Sond. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Type of Acalypha sonderiana Müll.Arg. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Isotype of Acalypha sonderiana Müll. Arg. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Syntype of Acalypha sonderiana Müll. Arg. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Type of Acalypha sonderiana Müll.Arg. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Acalypha sonderiana Müll. Arg. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, Acalypha sonderiana Müll. Arg. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] Verified by Data not digitized,
Related name
  • Acalypha petiolaris
  • Acalypha sonderiana
  • Microstachys petiolaris

Flora

Entry for ACALYPHA sonderiana Müll. Arg. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, Part 2, page 216, (1925) Author: (By N. E. BROWN, J. HUTCHINSON and D. PRAIN.)
Names
ACALYPHA sonderiana Müll. Arg. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxiv. 9;—DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 804; Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1913, 12.
ACALYPHA ? petiolaris Sond. [family ], in Linnæa, xxiii. 117; Walp. Ann. iii. 367.
Ricinocarpus sonderianus O. Kuntze [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 618.
Information
a small tree, much branched; branches rigid, leafy branches often ending in stiff pungent spines; bark glabrous, lenticelled; buds perulate; leaves membranous, distinctly petioled, oblong-ovate or -elliptic, obtuse, base rounded, margin bluntly rather wide-crenate, 1–2 1/4 in. long, 2/3–1 in. wide, glabrous on both surfaces, clustered at the apices of short lateral twigs along the branches; twigs densely or loosely clothed with subimbricating rigid ovate-acute scales; petiole 1/4– 3/4 in. long, sparingly pubescent; stipules small; inflorescence 2-sexual, with a solitary terminal jointed female flower and with rather distant clusters of male flowers downwards; spikes solitary, geminate or ternate, mixed with the leaves at the tips of the scaly twigs, 2/3–1 1/4 in. long; rhachis white-puberulous; bracts all minute; male several-flowered, ovate, acute; male buds glabrous, distinctly pedicelled; female calyx 4–6-partite; lobes ovate, acute; ovary distinctly 3-celled, harshly puberulous; styles 3, free to the base, laciniate; seeds globose. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; near Durban, Gueinzius, 11! 510! Gerrard, 1625!
Notes
A very distinct species.

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