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Chilianthus triphyllus

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Identification
Chilianthus triphyllus E.Mey. [family BUDDLEJACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Nuxia floribunda Benth. [family BUDDLEJACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Leeuwenberg, A.J.M., 1971
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  • Nuxia floribunda

Flora

Entry for NUXIA floribunda Benth. [family BUDDLEJACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 1036, (1909) Author: By D. PRAINand H. A. CUMMINS.
Names
NUXIA floribunda Benth. [family BUDDLEJACEAE], in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 59;—DC. Prodr. x. 435; Pappe, Silva Cap. ed. 2, 30; Fourcade, Rep. Natal For. 1889, 115; Sim, For. Fl. Cap. 274, t. 157; Wood and Evans, Natal Plants, i. 48, t. 59.
Chilianthus triphyllus E. Meyer [family BUDDLEJACEAE], Zwei Pfl. Docum. 172.
Information
an erect tree 15–50 ft. high; bark pale-grey; leaves usually in 3-nate whorls, firmly papery, glabrous, oblong-elliptic, acute or acuminate, less often obtuse, base cuneate and entire, margin elsewhere remotely usually obscurely toothed, 2–6 in. long, 3/4–2 1/2 in. wide; petiole 1/2–1 1/2 in. long; cymes in ample panicles repeatedly dichotomously branched, 4–8 in. across; bracts minute; flowers sessile or the central of a cyme short-pedicelled; calyx narrow-campanulate, 1 lin. long, thinly papery; tube outside glabrous, within sparsely beset with short silky hairs or quite glabrous; corolla white, 1 1/2 lin. long, glabrous outside, in bud obtuse; lobes narrow ligulate, obtuse, longer than tube; ovary glabrous. null
Distribution
COAST REGION George Div.; near George, Prior! Knysna Div.; near the Knysna River ford, Burchell, 5537! in the forest at Knysna, Burchell, 5448! Bolus, 2145! Kaatjes Kraal, near Yzer Nek, Burchell, 5240! between Keurbooms River and Bitou River, Burchell, 5295! Humansdorp Div.; between Kromme River and Gamtoos River, Drège! Storms River Forest, 500 ft., Galpin, 4333! Uitenhage Div.; between Van Standens River and Galgebosch, Burchell, 4763! near Uitenhage, near streams, Burchell, 4241! banks of the Zwartkops River and ravines of Van Standens Berg, Zeyher! Uitenhage, Ecklon! Port Elizabeth Div.; Krakakama, Zeyher!EASTERN REGION Natal; hills near Illovo River, Gerrard, 1893! Inanda, Wood, 980! Western Zululand, Baker in Herb. Evans, 528.SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Mund and Maire!

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