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Euclea fructuosa

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Name

Identification
Euclea natalensis A.DC. [family EBENACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Verdcourt, B., Euclea natalensis A.DC. [family EBENACEAE ] Verified by White, F., Euclea fructuosa Hiern [family EBENACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for EUCLEA fructuosa Hiern [family EBENACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 509, (1877) Author: (By W. P. Hiern.)
Names
EUCLEA fructuosa Hiern [family EBENACEAE], Monogr. Eben. p. 101.
Information
A small or arborescent shrub, with softly pubescent tawny terete branches. Leaves alternate or subopposite, obovate-oblong, wedge-shaped at the base, coriaceous, quickly glabrescent and nitescent, 1 1/2–4 1/2 by 3/4–1 1/2 in., delicately reticulated; margins reflexed; petiole 3/10– 2/5 in. long, pubescent. Male plant unknown. Fruiting racemes or panicles ranging up to 1 in. long, with about 20 fruits, pubescent; pedicels short, thickened upwards to the articulation with the calyx. Calyx 5-lobed; lobes deltoid, acute, small; tube consolidated in fruit. Corolla sometimes marcescent, apparently 4–5-cleft; lobes ovate. Fruits tawny-pubescent, 1/4 in. diam., 1-celled. Seed solitary; albumen uniform.
Distribution
Mozamb. Dist. Between Tette and the sea-coast, Kirk! Luame mouth of th Zambesi, Kirk! Dar Salam, Kirk!

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