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Avicennia officinalis

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Identification
Avicennia officinalis L. [family AVICENNIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by HBG-formal name change, 2007 Avicennia tomentosa L. [family AVICENNIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Avicennia nitida
  • Avicennia officinalis
  • Avicennia tomentosa

Flora

Entry for AVICENNIA officinalis Linn. [family AVICENNIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 180, (1912) Author: By H. H. W. PEARSON.
Names
AVICENNIA officinalis Linn. [family AVICENNIACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. i. 110;—Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 700; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 604; Baker in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. v. 332.
AVICENNIA resinifera Forst. [family AVICENNIACEAE], Prodr. 45.
AVICENNIA tomentosa Jacq. [family AVICENNIACEAE], Select. Stirp. Amer. Hist. 178, t. 112, fig. 2; Wight, Ic. Pl. t. 1481; R. Br. Prodr. 518; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 88; Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 44, t. 271; E. Meyer, Comm. 277; Walp. Rep. iv. 131; Schauer, l.c. 699, 700; Hochst. in Flora, 1845, 68
AVICENNIA tomentosa Walp. var. arabica [family AVICENNIACEAE], l.c. 133.
AVICENNIA africana Beauv. [family AVICENNIACEAE], Fl. Owar. i. 80, t. 47.
AVICENNIA Meyeri Miq. [family AVICENNIACEAE], in Linnæa, xviii. 262.
Information
a shrub or small tree; young branches terete, furrowed, clothed with a dense minute white or yellowish-white indumentum, later glabrescent; leaves oblong, oblong-lanceolate or elliptic, acuminate, acute or obtuse, narrowed at the base into the short petiole, entire, coriaceous, thick, green, glabrous and prominently reticulately veined above, densely clothed by a minute white or yellowish-white indumentum beneath, 2–3 in. long, 9–13 lin. broad; spikes dense, globose, terminal and axillary, supported on short acutely 4-angled peduncles; bracts and bracteoles broadly ovate, densely silvery tomentose along the margin and on the back or glabrescent, glabrous above, about 1 1/4 lin. long; calyx-tube very short; lobes broadly oblong or elliptic, rounded at the apex, glabrous within, pubescent on the back and margins, about 2 lin. long; corolla-tube 1/2–1 lin. long; lobes 4, oblong, yellow, glabrous within, densely and minutely tomentose without except at the tip, 1 1/2–2 lin long; ovary deeply grooved, tomentose. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Bomvanaland; at the mouth of the River Xara, Soga in MacOwan, Herb. Austr.-Afr., 1941! MacOwan, 3203! Natal; on the muddy shore of Durban Bay, Drège! Krauss, 241! Sanderson, 886! Plant, 21! Wood, 395! 1360! Wilms, 2229! Rehmann, 9004! Peddie! Cooper, 1233! Delagoa Bay, Junod, 500!
Notes
Found growing with Rhizophora mucronata, Lam., and Bruguiera gymnorrhiza, Lam., Drège, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Documente, 159, no. 32; Harvey & Sonder, Flora Capensis, ii. 513, 514. Also on the Tropical shores of both hemispheres.

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