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Cassinopsis tinifolia

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Name

Identification
Cassinopsis unrecorded unrecorded [family ICACINACEAE ] Cassinopsis tinifolia Harv. [family ICACINACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Cassinopsis tinifolia
  • Cassinopsis unrecorded

Flora

Entry for Cassinopsis tinifolia Harv. [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 tinifolia Harv. [family ICACINACEAE], Thes. Cap. 2: 44, t. 168 (1863). — Engl., Pflanzenw. Afr. 3, 2: 253 (1921). — Sleumer in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 20b: 348 (1942). — Wild in Proc. & Trans. Rhod. Sci. Ass. 43: 57 (1951). — Goodier & Phipps in Kirkia, 1: 58 (1961). Syntypes from S. Africa (Natal and Zululand).
Information
Straggling unarmed shrub or small tree, 4 m. in height; bark smooth, grey. Leaf-lamina 3–9 × 2–5 cm., apex bluntly acuminate, margins entire and recurved, broadly cuneate at base, dark green, glossy above. Flowers in much-forked cymes, often 3 cm. across, on axillary peduncles c. 3 cm. long. Calyx puberulous. Petals white. Fruit an elongated longitudinally corrugated drupe, c. 8 × 4·5 mm., black at maturity.
Habitat
Margin of mountain forest, wooded gullies and riverine vegetation.
Distribution
Zimbabwe E Umtali Distr., Stapleford, on hillock N. of Ruperi Peak, Nyamkwarara Valley, 1675 m., fl. 28.ix.1952, Chase 4636 (BM; COI; K; LISC; SRGH).Mozambique MS Báruè, Vila Gouveia, Serra de Choa, fl. 7.ix.1943, Torre 5853 (K; LISC; LM).
Distribution (external)
Zululand
Natal
Pondoland

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