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Behnia reticulata

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Name

Identification
Ruscus reticulatus Thunb. [family RUSCACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Behnia reticulata (Thunb.) Didr. [family RUSCACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
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Flora

Entry for BEHNIA reticulata Didrichs. [family PHILESIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, page 253, (1897) Author: (By J. G. BAKER).
Names
BEHNIA reticulata Didrichs. [family PHILESIACEAE], in Viddensk. Meddel. Kjöben. 1854, 183
Ruscus reticulatus Thunb. [family RUSCACEAE], Prodr. 13; Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 38; Willd. Sp. Plant. iv. 876; Kunth, Enum. v. 276.
Dictyopsis Thunbergii Harv. [family ], in Bot. Mag. t. 5638; Cape Gen. edit. 2, 406.
Hylonome reticulata Baker [family ], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 561, vix Webb.
Information
stems glabrous, slender, woody, terete, unarmed, copiously branched, sarmentose; branchlets flexuose; leaves alternate, sessile, ovate, acute, 2–3 in. long, firm in texture, green, glossy, broadly rounded at the base, furnished with a distinct midrib and 5–7 strongly marked vertical veins on each side of it, connected by close distinct cross-veinlets; flowers in simple or slightly compound cymes from the axils of the upper leaves; bracts persistent, scariose, ovate-anceolate; pedicels 1/3 in. long, articulated at the apex; perianth greenish, 1/3 in. long; segments 1/4 as long as the tube; stamens and style not exserted beyond the tip of the perianth-segments; berry 1/3– 1/2 in. diam. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div., Zeyher! Bowker!COAST REGION Uitenhage, Zeyher, 542! Port Elizabeth Div.; Cragga Kamma, Burchell, 4554! Alexandria Div.; Zuurberg Range, Cooper, 3258! Bathurst Div.; near Port Alfred, Burchell, 3800! Albany Div.; Hutton! Stutterheim Div.; Kabousie, 3000–3500 ft., Murray in Herb. MacOwan, 1809! British Kaffraria, Cooper, 189!EASTERN REGION Natal; coast-land, up to 1000 ft., Sutherland! Inanda, Wood, 204! and without precise locality, Cooper, 1266! 3256!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; woods around Barberton, Galpin, 517! Houtbosch Berg, Nelson, 494!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg!

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