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Cassine crocea

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Identification
Cassine crocea (Thunb.) Kuntze [family CELASTRACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for ELÆODENDRON Capense E. & Z. [family ]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 451, (1894) Author: (By W. SONDER.)
Names
ELÆODENDRON Capense E. & Z. [family ], ! 979;—Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3835.
ELÆODENDRON papillosum Hochst. [family ], ! in Krauss, Beytr. 42.
Ilex crocea E. Mey. [family AQUIFOLIACEAE], ! in Hb. Drege.
Cassine crocea Presl [family CELASTRACEAE], !
Information
glabrous; branches rough with points; leaves sub-opposite, petioled, coriaceous, elliptic-ovate or ovate-oblong, sub-acute or acuminate, quite glabrous at both sides, netted-veined, remotely serrate, with revolute margin; panicles simple, dichotomous; drupe ovate or ovate-oblong, 2–3- celled. An erect shrub. Leaves 2–3 inches long, 1–1 1/2 inch wide, opposite, or sub-alternate; petiole 3–4 lines long, furrowed. Panicle few or many flowered, inch long. Pedicels bracteolate. Flowers 4-parted. Ovary sunk in a flat disc. Drupe 1/2–1 inch long, red, rugged, with a hard woody nucleus. Seeds mostly 2, sub-compressed, red-brown, shining.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Primitive woods of Zitzekamma and Krakakamma, and at Gauritz River, E. & Z.! Swellendam, Mundt! Vanstaadensberg, Zey.! 2191. Port Natal, Krauss! Jul. (Herb. Vind., Lehm., T.C.D., Sond.)

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