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Gnidia oppositifolia

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Gnidia oppositifolia L. [family THYMELAEACEAE ]
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Entry for GNIDIA oppositifolia Linn. [family THYMELAEACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
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Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, Part 2, page 1, (1925) Author: (By C. H. WRIGHT.)
Names
GNIDIA oppositifolia Linn. [family THYMELAEACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. i. 358;—Lam. Encycl. ii. 766, Ill. t. 291, fig. 2; Bot. Reg. t. 2; Bot. Mag. t. 1902; Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 225. Wikstr. in Vet. Acad. Handl. 1818, 312; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, ii. 413; Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 79, 85, 89; Meisn. in Linnæa, xiv. 431, and in DC. Prodr. xiv. 586; O. Kuntze, Rep. Gen. Pl. iii. ii. 281; Bolus & Wolley-Dod in Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc. xiv. 316.
GNIDIA lævigata Thunb. [family THYMELAEACEAE], Prodr. 76, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 379; Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 89.
GNIDIA latifolia Hort. ex Meisn. [family THYMELAEACEAE], in Linnæa, xiv. 432.
Passerina lævigata Linn. [family THYMELAEACEAE], Amœn. Acad. iv. 312, and Sp. Pl. ed. ii. 513.
Nectandra lævigata Berg. [family LAURACEAE], Descr. Pl. Cap. 134.
Gnidiopsis oppositifolia Van Tiegh. [family ], in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xl. (1893) 76.
Thymelæa foliis planis acutis, etc. Burm. [family ], Rar. Afr. Pl. 137, t. 49, fig. 3.
Information
a much-branched shrub up to 12 ft. high; branches virgate, slender, glabrous, reddish when young; leaves decussate, longer than the internodes, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, 5 lin. long, 2 lin. wide, quite glabrous, 1-nerved beneath, the upper often reddish especially at the margin; flowers in clusters of 4–6 at the branches; calyx pubescent outside; tube 8 lin. long, articulated below, slightly widened upwards, ribbed; lobes obovate, obtuse, 1 1/2 lin. long, 1 lin. wide; petals 4, fleshy, 2-lobed in front, 1 lin. long; anthers 1/3 lin. long, much narrower than the petals, all included; ovary 1/4 lin. long, compressed, densely hairy at the top; style half as long as the calyx-tube; stigma capitate. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Tulbagh Div.; Tulbagh, Pappe, 21! Waterfall, Tyson, 1473! Mitchells Pass, Pearson, 3519! Worcester Div.; Dutoits Kloof, Drège! Hex River Vley, Tyson, 806! Paarl Div.; Paarl Mountain, Drège! Cape Div.; Muizenberg, Burke! Bolus, 4645! Table Mountain, Drège! Burchell, 559! Kuntze! Vley north of Constantia Berg, Wolley-Dod, 665! Steen Berg, 900 ft., Dümmer, 985! Simons Bay, Wright! Vlagge Berg, Schlechter, 189! Stellenbosch Div.; Stellenbosch, Ecklon & Zeyher! Lowrys Pass, Burchell, 8253! MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 246! Swellendam Div.; mountains near Swellendam, 2000–4000 ft., Mund, 16! 17! Burchell, 7400! Riversdale Div.; Garcias Pass, 900 ft., Galpin, 4528! Paardeberg, Muir in Herb. Galpin. 5321! Corente River Farm, Muir in Herb. Galpin, 5320! George Div.; on the Cradock Berg, near George, Burchell, 5947! 5958! Knysna Div.; on mountains near Millwood, Tyson, 3127! Humansdorp Div.; Kruisfontein, Galpin, 4527! near Humansdorp, Kennedy! Uitenhage Div.; Uitenhage, Zeyher, 208! Albany Div.; along the rivulet at Grahamstown, Zeyher, 891! Burchell, 3543! MacOwan!EASTERN REGION Griqualand East; Fort Donald, Tyson, 1639!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Sieber! Villet! Grey! Bowie! Harvey, 681!

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