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Antidesma rufescens

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Identification
Antidesma rufescens Tul. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Antidesma membranaceum
  • Antidesma venosum
  • Antidesma rufescens
  • Antidesma sassandrae

Flora

Entry for ANTIDESMA venosum Tul. [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
ANTIDESMA venosum Tul. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Ann. Sci. Nat. 3me sér. xv. 232;—Harv. Thes. Cap. ii. 45; Müll. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 260; Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 237, and in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 282; Durand & Schinz, Études Fl. Congo, 243; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 965; De Wild. & Durand, Contr. Fl. Congo, i. 49, and Reliq. Dewevr. 206; De Wild. Études Fl. Katanga, 79, and Miss. É. Laurent, 128; Th. & Hél. Durand, Syll. Fl. Congol. 484; Sim, For. Fl. Cape Col. 313, t. cxiii. fig. iv.; Hutchinson in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 646.
ANTIDESMA venosum Tul. var. thouarsianum [family EUPHORBIACEAE], l.c. 234.
ANTIDESMA bifrons Tul. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], l.c. 229.
ANTIDESMA rufescens Tul. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], l.c. 231.
ANTIDESMA boivinianum Baill. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Adansonia, ii. 45.
ANTIDESMA natalensis Harv. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Thes. Cap. ii. 45, t. 169, by error.
ANTIDESMA membranaceum Müll. Arg. var. molle [family EUPHORBIACEAE], l.c. 261; Hiern, l.c.; Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 211; S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. xl. 194.
ANTIDESMA nervosum De Wild. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Études Fl. Baset Moyen-Congo, ii. 270.
ANTIDESMA venosum De Wild. forma glabrescens [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Études Fl. Katanga, 79.
ANTIDESMA fusco-cinerea Beille [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, lv. Mém. viii. 64.
ANTIDESMA Sassandræ Beille [family EUPHORBIACEAE], l.c. lvi. Mem. viii. 123.
Information
a shrub or tree about 30 ft. high; leaves usually more or less elliptic or oblanceolate, somewhat rounded or subacute at the base and apex, sometimes slightly emarginate, up to 6 in. long and 2 1/2 in. broad, thinly coriaceous or almost membranous, glabrous or pubescent above, varying from thinly pubescent to tomentose below; lateral nerves usually 7 on each side, more or less distinctly looped, slightly impressed above, prominent below; petiole up to 3 lin. long, pubescent; stipules lanceolate, entire, acute, mostly more or less tomentose; male spikes up to 6 in. long, tomentose or pubescent; bracts very small; calyx 3–5-partite, more or less pubescent or tomentose; disc subglabrous; stamens 3–5; rudimentary ovary pilose or subglabrous; female racemes 2–5 in. long; bracts as in the male; fruits pedicellate, ellipsoid, slightly flattened, glabrous, about 4 lin. long and 2 1/2 lin. broad. null
Range
Very common in Tropical Africa.
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; Berea, near Durban, Wood, 208! 769! 9130! Drège! Gueinzius! M‘Ken, 296! Plant, 25! near Umlaas River, Krauss, 138! Inanda, Wood, 392! 1068! Dumisa, Rudatis, 525! 601! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 279! Cooper, 1230!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Avoca, near Barberton, Galpin, 1249! between Louws Creek and Adamanda Mine, Barberton district, Burtt-Davy, 2812! Tzaneen Estate, Zoutpansberg, Burtt-Davy, 5265! Komati Poort, Schlechter, 11840! between Spitz Kop and Komati River, Wilms, 206!

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