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Alchornea glabrata

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Name

Identification
Alchornea hirtella Benth. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Alchornea glabrata (Müll.Arg) Prain [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] Alchornea floribunda Müll.Arg. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Alchornea floribunda
  • Alchornea hirtella
  • Alchornea glabrata

Flora

Entry for ALCHORNEA glabrata Prain [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
ALCHORNEA glabrata Prain [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1910, 342;—Prain in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 916.
ALCHORNEA floribunda Müll. Arg. var. glabrata [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1864, 336, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 905; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 979.
Information
a shrub or small tree up to 40 ft. high; twigs not perulate, minutely puberulous or pubescent; leaves short-petioled, membranous, oblong or oblanceolate-oblong, acute or shortly acuminate, gradually narrowed to the base, margin entire or crenately toothed, 4–6 in. long, 1–2 1/2 in. wide, penninerved throughout, nerves rather prominent beneath, glabrous on both sides; petiole puberulous or glabrous, 1/5– 1/3 in. long; stipules subulate, caducous, 1/4 in. long; male spikes in lax terminal panicles up to 6 in. long, individual spikes interrupted, 2–3 in. long; rhachis slender, puberulous or nearly glabrous; flowers glomerulate, bracts and bracteoles minute; female spikes simple, 2–3 in. long, rhachis slender; flowers solitary to each bract; ovary glabrous; styles 4–5 lin. long; capsule glabrous, smooth, dark-brown, 1/3 in. across; seeds globose. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa.
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Zululand: Ongoo, Gerrard, 2160!

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