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Ctenomeria capensis

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Identification
Isotype of Ctenomeria capensis (Thunb.) Harv. ex Sond. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] Tragia capensis Thunb. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Tragia capensis
  • Ctenomeria capensis
  • Ctenomeria cordata

Flora

Entry for CTENOMERIA cordata Harv. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, Part 2, page 216, (1925) Author: (By N. E. BROWN, J. HUTCHINSON and D. PRAIN.)
Names
CTENOMERIA cordata Harv. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. i. 29;—Baill. Adansonia, iii. 161.
CTENOMERIA kraussiana Hochst. ex Krauss [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Flora, 1845, 85; Sond. in Linnæa, xxiii. 110; Baill. l.c.
CTENOMERIA capensis Harv. ex Sond. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], l.c. 109; Prain in Journ. Bot. 1913, 171.
Tragia capensis Thunb. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Prodr. 14, and in Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 37; E. Meyer in Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 226, Galgebosch plant only.
Leptorhachis capensis Müll. Arg. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in DC. Prodr xv. ii. 926.
Leptorhachis capensis Müll. Arg. forma luxurians [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in DC. Prodr xv. ii. 926.
Information
stems twining, 7–8 ft. long, branched, glabrous to densely pubescent, especially upwards, and armed with stinging hairs; leaves long-petioled, membranous, triangular-ovate, acute or shortly acuminate, base rather wide-cordate, margin subentire to crenate or serrate, often slightly (rarely rather deeply) 3-lobed with lobes acute or shortly acuminate, 1 1/4–3 in. long, 1–2 1/2 in. wide, glabrous to pubescent above, sparingly to rather closely pubescent beneath; petiole 1–2 in. long, glabrous to pubescent; stipules lanceolate, reflexed, membranous; racemes androgynous, terminal on branches or leaf-opposed, 3–6 in. long; peduncles naked, glabrous to pubescent, up to 1 in. long, with many male flowers in rather remote 3-flowered cymules or glomerules above and 1 (less often 2) basal female flowers; bracts lanceolate, acute; male pedicels as long as the calyx, female pedicels longer; male calyx 5-sect; lobes ovate, acute, puberulous or pubescent outside; stamens 40–60; anthers longer than filaments, introrse; female calyx 6-partite; lobes pectinately 6–8-lacinulate on each side, rhachis lanceolate, somewhat accrescent and indurated in fruit, at length 1/4 in. long; ovary setose; styles 3, free, 1/4 in. long, densely papillose; capsule 3-coccous, 1/3 in. across; cocci subglobose, sparingly to copiously setose and bristly; seeds globose, closely reticulate. null
Distribution
COAST REGION George Div.; near George, Mund & Maire, 245! Knysna Div.; woods of Knysna and Plettenbergs Bay, Bowie! between Keurbooms River and Bitou River, Burchell, 5292! Bosch River, Drège, 8239! Humansdorp Div.; near Humansdorp, 200 ft., Kennedy! MacOwan, 314! Uitenhage Div.; near Uitenhage, Thunberg! Zeyher, 676! 3845! by the Coega River and in the Winterhoek Mountains, Ecklon & Zeyher, 71! Galgebosch, Drège! Kleine Place, Prior! Albany Div.; Howisons Poort, near Grahamstown, Mrs. Hutton! Mrs. Barber, 113! Williamson! Komgha Div.; near the mouth of the Kei River, Flanagan, 451!EASTERN REGION Transkei; Kentani, 1000 ft., Miss Pegler, 287! Natal; near Durban, Gueinzius! Gerrard, 310! 604, partly! Rehmann, 8807! Clairmont, Schlechter, 2843! Berea, 200–300 ft., Wood, 6335! Inanda, Wood, 707! 801! Dumisa, 2000 ft., Rudatis, 799! near Umlaas River, Krauss, 186!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Umvoti Creek, near Barberton, 3000 ft., Galpin, 1002!
Notes
Somewhat variable as regards the degree of pubescence which is copious in the original Tragia capensis (C. capensis, Harv.) but almost absent in C. cordata, Harv. The two are, however, connected by so many intermediates that it is not possible to separate them as distinct varieties.

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