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Elaeodendron croceum

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Identification
Elaeodendron croceum (Thunb.) DC. [family CELASTRACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for Crocoxylon croceum Thunb. N. Robson [family CELASTRACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 2, Part 2, page 355, (1966) Author: N. K. Robson
Names
Crocoxylon croceum Thunb. N. Robson [family CELASTRACEAE], in Bol. Soc. Brot., Sér. 2, 39: 41 (1965). Type from S. Africa (Cape Prov.).
Ilex crocea Thunb. [family CELASTRACEAE], Fl. Cap. 1: 577 (1813). Type as above.
Elaeodendron croceum Thunb. DC. [family CELASTRACEAE], Prodr. 2: 11 (1825). — Harv. in Harv. & Sond., F.C. 1: 468 (1860). — Sim, For. & For. Fl. Col. Cap. Good Hope: 189, t. 43 (1907). — Loes. in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam., ed. 2, 20b: 173 (1942). Type as above.
Crocoxylon excelsum Eckl. & Zeyh. [family CELASTRACEAE], Enum. Pl. Afr. Austr. Extratrop. 1: 128 (1834–35?). Type as above.
Salacia zeyheri Planch. ex Harv. [family CELASTRACEAE], tom. cit.: 230 (1860). Type from S. Africa (Cape Prov.).
Cassine crocea Thunb. Kuntze [family CELASTRACEAE], Rev. Gen. Pl. 1: 114 (1891). — Loes. in Engl. & Prantl, op. cit. 3, 5: 215 (1892). Type as for Ilex crocea.
Information
Shrub or tree 1–12 m. high; branches angular and brownish-green when young, becoming vinous red with whitish lenticels and eventually terete and grey with prominent brownish lenticels. Leaves with lamina dark green or greyish-green above, usually paler below, 3·5–7 × 1·2–3·5 cm., elliptic or oblong to obovate, obtuse to rounded at the apex, with margin usually shallowly crenulate-denticulate, cuneate at the base, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, with densely reticulate venation visible below at first but becoming prominent on both sides; petiole 2–7 mm. long. Cymes with peduncle 4–10 mm. long; flowers 3–7 in each dichasium, 5–7 mm. in diam. Sepals 4, c. 1 mm. long, broadly ovate to subcircular. Petals 4, green, 2·5–3·5 mm. long, obovate, sometimes broadly unguiculate, with or without shallow longitudinal ridges and short fringed appendage at the base, entire. Stamens 4. Ovary 4-locular, semiglobose, c. 1/2-immersed in disk. Drupe white, up to c. 25 mm. long, globose, smooth.
Habitat
Evergreen forest and near rivers.
Distribution
Mozambique M Namaacha, Fonte de Goba, fl. 18.ix.1963, Carvalho 654 (K).
Distribution (external)
S. Africa (Cape Prov.) near Port Elizabeth
Notes
The specimen from our area appears to belong to the same species as those from Cape Province, despite the large disjunction involved.

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