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Cordia caffra

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Name

Identification
Cordia caffra Sond. [family BORAGINACEAE ]
Related name
  • Cordia caffra

Flora

Entry for CORDIA caffra Sond. [family BORAGINACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 2, (1904) Author: By C. H. WRIGHT.
Names
CORDIA caffra Sond. [family BORAGINACEAE], in Linnæa, xxiii. 81
CORDIA caffra Sonder var. natalensis [family BORAGINACEAE], l.c.
CORDIA caffra Sonder var. Zeyheri [family BORAGINACEAE], l.c.
CORDIA caffra Sonder var. erosa [family BORAGINACEAE], l.c.
Cordia natalensis Sond. [family BORAGINACEAE], in Linnæa, l.c.
Cordia Zeyheri Sond. [family BORAGINACEAE], in Linnæa, l.c.
Cordia erosa Sond. [family BORAGINACEAE], in Linnæa, l.c.
Information
a shrub 6 ft. high; branches glabrous, terete; leaves ovate, acuminate, more or less acute at the base, serrate or dentate, glabrous, 2 1/2 in. long, 1 1/4 in. broad; petiole slender, up to 1 1/2 in. long; panicles terminal and lateral, corymbose, shortly peduncled, branches glabrous or puberulous; calyx campanulate, irregularly 3–4-toothed, glabrous, 2 1/2 lin. long; corolla 4- (rarely 5-) lobed, 3 1/2 lin. long, varying much in depth of lobing; lobes oblong, sinuate; anthers oblong, rather longer than the filaments; ovary glabrous. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Uitenhage Div.; Van Stadens River, near the Ford, Burchell, 4656! Bathurst Div.; at the mouth of the Great Fish River, western side, Burchell, 3734! near Theopolis, between Riet Fontein and the sea shore, Burchell, 4103! Albany Div.; Bowker! Zeyher, 1! East London Div.; wooded valley, East London, 50 ft., Galpin, 5759!EASTERN REGION Natal; Inanda, Wood, 682! near Durban, Gueinzius, 97! Wilms, 1914! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 263!
Notes
I regard Sonder's varieties as varying sexual conditions.

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