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Encephalartos kosiensis

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Name

Identification
Encephalartos kosiensis Hutchinson [family ZAMIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Encephalartos kosiensis
  • Encephalartos sp.

Flora

Entry for ENCEPHALARTOS kosiensis Hutch. [family ZAMIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, Part 2 (Supplement), page 24, (1933) Author: (By J. HUTCHINSON & G. RATTRAY.)
Names
ENCEPHALARTOS kosiensis Hutch. [family ZAMIACEAE], in Kew Bull. 1932, 512
Information
stemless or nearly so (stems at most a few inches high— fide Aitken and Gale); leaves probably about 3 ft. long; rhachis narrowly grooved on the upper side, glabrous; leaflets probably about 20 pairs, crowded and slightly overlapping, oblong-elliptic, sessile with a very broad base, more or less rounded on each side at the base, without a definite apex but divided into 3–5 broadly triangular pungent-pointed lobes, with usually about 2–4 smaller lateral teeth on each margin, 3–6 in. long, 1 1/2–2 in. broad, the largest with about 25 rather faint parallel nerves; cones not seen. null
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA GEOGRAPHICAL RANGE: Coastal region of Zululand. Zululand: behind sand-dune bush near Kosi Lake, East Ingwavuma district, Aitken & Gale, 63; Kosi Bay, Col. Lugge in Natal Herb., 16507! Cultivated by Col. G. Molyneux at the “Old Fort,” Durban, July 1930!
Notes
Further material and information about this species is much desired at Kew. ADDENDA : A letter from Col. Molyneux, received after going to press, states that he has growing at the Old Fort Garden, Durban, specimens of this species 4 ft. in height, which have produced cones of a bright red colour. Probably in the wild state the stem never rises more than a few inches above the sandy soil in which it grows near the coast, but in cultivation produces a short aerial stem, as in some other species.

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