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Barringtonia caffra

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Name

Identification
Barringtonia caffra E.Mey. [family LECYTHIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Barringtonia racemosa (L.) Spreng. [family LECYTHIDACEAE ] Verified by Payens, J.P.D.W., Isotype of Butonica caffra Miers. [family LECYTHIDACEAE ] Verified by Payens, J.P.D.W.,
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  • Barringtonia caffra
  • Barringtonia racemosa
  • Butonica caffra

Flora

Entry for BARRINGTONIA racemosa Roxb. [family LECYTHIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 520, (1894) Author: (BY W. SONDER.)
Names
BARRINGTONIA racemosa Roxb. [family LECYTHIDACEAE], fl. Ind. 2. 634;—W. & Arn. l. c. Blume in DC. Prod. 3. 288.
BARRINGTONIA Caffra E. Meyer [family LECYTHIDACEAE], in herb. Drege.
Information
leaves cuneate-oblong, shortly acuminate, serrulated or crenulated; flowers forming a long, pendulous raceme; pedicels short; calyx 3–4-cleft; fruit ovate; endocarp fibrous. Leaves 1/2–1 foot long, 3–5 inches broad. Raceme 1 foot or longer. Pedicels 3 lines, calyx 6 lines long, with ovate lobes. Petals ovate, 10–12 lines long. Stamens longer than the petals, but shorter than the style. Fruit 2 inches long, 1/2 inch wide. Seed the size of a walnut. The South African specimens are not different from those collected by Zollinger in Java, except that in the latter the pedicels are as long as the calyx or a little longer.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Near Port Natal, Drege, Gueinzius, 459, 542, 575. (Herb. Sd.)

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