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Celtis vesiculosa

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Name

Identification
Celtis vesiculosa Hochst. ex Planch. [family ULMACEAE ] Celtis africana Burm.f. [family ULMACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Celtis africana
  • Celtis vesiculosa
  • Celtis kraussiana

Flora

Entry for CELTIS rhamnifolia Presl [family ULMACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, Part 2, page 516, (1925) Author: (By N. E. BROWN.)
Names
CELTIS rhamnifolia Presl [family ULMACEAE], Bot. Bemerk. 37, excl. syn.;—Burtt-Davy in Transv. Agric. Journ. iv. t. 111, and v. 433.
CELTIS kraussiana Bernh. [family ULMACEAE], in Flora, 1845, 87, and in Krauss, Fl. Cap.-und-Natal. 150; Planch. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 3me sér. x. 295, and in DC. Prodr. xvii. 173; Wood, Natal Pl. i. 25, t. 28; Burtt-Davy in Transv. Agric. Journ. v. 433; Sim, For. Fl. Cape Col. 306, t. 134 (floral analyses very inaccurate).
CELTIS opegrapha Planch. [family ULMACEAE], in Ann. Sc. Nat. 3me sér. x. 294, 295, 296.
CELTIS vesiculosa Hochst. ex Planch. [family ULMACEAE], in Ann. Sc. Nat. 3me sér. x. 294, 295, 296.
CELTIS Burmanni Planch. [family ULMACEAE], in Ann. Sc. Nat. 3me sér. x. 294, 295, 296.
Celtis eriantha E. Meyer [family ULMACEAE], in Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 171, andPlanch. l.c. 296.
Celtis foliis subrotundis, &c. J. Burm. [family ULMACEAE], Rar. Afr. Pl. 242, t. 88.
Information
varying from a shrub to a tree 20–80 ft. high; branches with a brown or greyish bark, thinly puberulous to densely pubescent on the young growth, becoming glabrous; leaves alternate, petiolate, varying from glabrous to densely pubescent on both sides; petiole 1–3 lin. long; blade 2/3–3 1/2 in. long, 1/3–2 1/4 in. broad, ovate, acuminate, obliquely rounded or subcordate at the base, serrate with small teeth, 3-nerved at the base; stipules 2 1/2–3 lin. long, 1/2– 2/3 lin. broad, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, obtuse, brown, deciduous; flowers unisexual or hermaphrodite, solitary or 2–4 in very shortly pedunculate cymes, axillary, pedicellate, the female or hermaphrodite flowers sometimes on a distinct plant, sometimes mingled with the males; pedicels 1–9 lin. long, slender, puberulous; perianth-segments 4, about 1 1/4 lin. long, boat-shaped, subobtuse, very spreading, brown, with paler margins, thin, glabrous, ciliate; stamens 4, spreading on or within the perianth-segments and shorter than or only exceeding the latter by their anthers, sometimes wanting in the fertile flowers; ovary shorter than the perianth-segments, ovoid or subglobose, densely woolly; stigmas 1–1 1/2 lin. long, very stout, densely papillate-pubescent; fruit subglobose, about 2 lin. in diam., glabrous or pubescent. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa and Arabia.
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div.; Bosch Berg, Burchell, 3146! by the Fish River, MacOwan, 1566! and without precise locality, Bowker! Graaff Reinet Div.; Oude Berg, Drège; near Graff Reinet, Drège! Bolus, 685! Wodehouse Div.; Mooi Flats, Drège, 8261 a! Aliwal North Div.; by the Orange River, Burke! Albert Div.; near Gaatje, Drège, 8261 b!COAST REGION Port Elizabeth Div.; Krakakamma, Zeyher, 570! 993! Uitenhage Div.; near the Lead-mine, Burchell, 4498! Queenstown Div.; near Queenstown, Cooper, 213! Galpin, 1890! Komgha Div.; near Komgha, Schlechter, 6160!EASTERN REGION Natal; near Durban and in the Botanic Garden, Gerrard, 85! 1977! Gueinzius! Wood, 1784! eastern side of Table Mountain, Krauss, 1776.KALAHARI REGION Basutoland; Leribe, Mrs. Dieterlen, 193! Transvaal; hills near Aapies River, Rehmann, 4277! Bereaparle, Pretoria, Miss Leendertz, 253! 330! north of Klerksdorp, Nelson, 250!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Zeyher, 314!
Notes
Known as White Stinkwood, Camdeboo Stinkwood and Wit-gat Boom. This plant is generally known as C. kraussiana, as Presl's earlier name was over-looked by Planchon when he monographed this genus, and has not been included in the Index Kewensis. Dr. Rendle has shown (Journ. Bot. 1915, 298) that Rhamnus celtifolius, Thunb. (Prodr. 44, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 196) is Rhamnus prinoides, L'Hérit. Presl erroneously referred it to Celtis rhamnifolia, which he founded on Drège, 8261.

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