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Embelia kraussii

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Name

Identification
Embelia ruminata (E.Mey. ex A.DC.) Mez [family MYRSINACEAE ] (stored under name); Embelia kraussii Harv. [family MYRSINACEAE ] Choripetalum unrecorded unrecorded [family MYRSINACEAE ]
Related name
  • Choripetalum unrecorded
  • Myrsine ruminata
  • Embelia ruminata
  • Embelia kraussii

Flora

Entry for EMBELIA Kraussii Harv. [family MYRSINACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 431, (1909) Author: By W. H. HARVEY, with additions by C. H. WRIGHT.
Names
EMBELIA Kraussii Harv. [family MYRSINACEAE], Thes. Cap. ii. 17, t. 127
EMBELIA ruminata Mez [family MYRSINACEAE], in Engl. Pflanzenr. Myrsin. 331.
Myrsine? ruminata E. Meyer [family ], in Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 155, 159; DC. Prodr. viii. 104.
Celastrus oleoides Lam. [family CELASTRACEAE], Ill. ii. 93; Hochst. in Flora, 1844, 304.
Information
glabrous; leaves obovate-oblong, acute, quite entire, with reflexed edges, cuneate at the base, shortly petiolate; racemes lateral, shorter than the leaf; calyx 5-toothed, its teeth broadly deltoid, acute; petals oblong, spreading, twice as long as the calyx. Leaves 1–1 1/2 in. long, thin and membranous. Racemes from old leaf-scars, 1/3– 3/4 in. long, 8–12-flowered. Ovary half sunk in a fleshy disk.
Distribution
COAST REGION Komgha Div.; near Komgha, 2000 ft., Flanagan, 284!EASTERN REGION Pondoland; between Umtentu River and Umzimkulu River, Drège. Natal; near Durban, Drège! Krauss, 407! Wood, 1350! Mount Edgecombe, Wood, 1149! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 292! Wood! Cooper!
Notes
Fruiting specimens of Myrsine? ruminata, E. Meyer, agree in foliage with our E. Kraussii, and come from Natal; the account of the inflorescence given by A. Decandolle also agrees with our plant, and to my eye the two are identical.— W.H.H.

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