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Cassinopsis ilicifolia

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Identification
Cassinopsis ilicifolia (Hochst.) Kuntze [family ICACINACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for Cassinopsis ilicifolia Hochst. Kuntze [family ICACINACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 2, Part 1, page 340, (1963) Author: E. J. Mendes
Names
Cassinopsis ilicifolia Hochst. Kuntze [family ICACINACEAE], Rev. Gen. Pl. 3, 2: 36 (1898). — Sleumer in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berl. 15: 228 (1940); in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 20b: 348 (1942). TAB. 70. Type from S. Africa (Cape).
Hartogia ilicifolia Hochst. [family ICACINACEAE], in Flora, 27: 305 (1844). Type as above.
Cassine ilicifolia Hochst. [family ICACINACEAE], loc. cit., in synon. Type as above.
Cassinopsis capensis Sond. [family ICACINACEAE], in Harv. & Sond., F.C. 1: 474 (1860). — Engl., Pflanzenw. Afr. 3, 2: 252 (1921). — Burtt Davy, F.P.F.T. 2: 451 (1932). Syntypes from S. Africa (Orange Free State and Cape).
Information
A glabrous spiny scrambling shrub, 5 m. high; branches alternate, terete, more or less flexuous, shining, green; spines straight, very acute, c. 2·5 cm. long, subinterpetiolar, in age apparently at the forks of the older branches. Leaf-lamina 4–6 × 2–2·5 cm., shining above, narrowly ovate, subacuminate and acute at the apex, margin spinulose-serrulate or subentire, broadly cuneate at the base (smaller on the flowering branches); petiole 0·5–0·8 cm. long. Flowers white, in subinterpetiolar dichotomous cymes. Petals 3 times as long as the pubescent calyx-lobes. Fruit yellow-orange at maturity, c. 1 cm. long, slightly compressed, tipped by the persistent style.
Habitat
In wooded kloofs and stream banks.
Range
from the Transvaal and Natal southwards to the Cape.
Distribution
Zimbabwe E Inyanga Distr., Nyamziwa Falls, 1645 m., fr. 14.1.1951, Chase 3658 (BM; BR; COI; LISC; SRGH); Umtali, N.E. of Inodzi homestead, 1220 m., fl. 27.x.1957, Chase 6750 (COI; K; SRGH).

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