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Dichapetalum cymosum

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Name

Identification
Dichapetalum cymosum (Hook.) Engl. [family DICHAPETALACEAE ]
Related name
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Flora

Entry for Dichapetalum cymosum Hook. Engl. [family DICHAPETALACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 2, Part 1, page 319, (1963) Author: A. R. Torre
Names
Dichapetalum cymosum Hook. Engl. [family DICHAPETALACEAE], in Eng. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3, 4: 349 (1896). — Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. 5, 4: 392 (1916). — Engl. & Krause in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam ed. 2, 19c: 6 (1931). — Wild, Comm. Rhod. Weeds: t. 50 (1955). TAB. 63. Type from the Transvaal.
Chailletia cymosa Hook. [family DICHAPETALACEAE], Ic. Pl. 6: t. 591 (1943). Type as above.
Information
Stems simple from a creeping woody rhizome, pubescent, striate. Leaves subsessile; lamina 5–13 × 2–4·5 cm., narrowly oblong to oblanceolate, rounded and minutely mucronate at the apex, narrowed or cuneate at the base, papyraceous when young, glabrous on both surfaces, pale green below; lateral nerves c. 6 pairs, tertiary nerves markedly reticulate and prominent below; stipules c. 4 mm. long, linear, pilose. Cymes up to 5 cm. long, c. 8-flowered; peduncle sparsely hairy or glabrous, partially adnate to the stem for c. 5 mm. above the axil; pedicels ± 2 mm. long; bracts c. 2 mm. long. Sepals c. 7 mm. long, narrow, free almost to the base, tomentose at the apex, becoming glabrous towards the base. Petals c. 7 mm. long, narrowly oblong, 2-fid for 2/3 their length, glabrous. Stamens as long as petals. Ovary villous; style c. 6 mm. long, deeply 3-divided. Fruit 4 × 2·5 cm., obovoid.
Habitat
On Kalahari Sand.
Distribution
Zimbabwe W Nyamandhlovu Distr., fl. 25.ix.1953, Plowes 1635 (K; SRGH), fr. 18.xi.1953, Plowes 1643 (K; SRGH).Botswana N Ngamiland, between Natal and Iamasetse, Pole Evans 4631 (PRE).
Distribution (external)
Transvaal
Notes
Very near to D. venenatum Engl. & Gilg. from which it is sometimes separable only with difficulty. Extremely poisonous to cattle.

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