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Kiggelaria africana

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Name

Identification
Kiggelaria africana L. [family FLACOURTIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Kiggelaria flavo-velutina
  • Kiggelaria integrifolia
  • Kiggelaria dregiana
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  • Kiggelaria flavovelutina
  • Kiggelaria ferruginea
  • Kiggelaria dregeana
  • Kiggelaria not on sheet
  • Kiggelaria unrecorded
  • Kiggelaria drageana
  • Kiggelaria africana

Flora

Entry for KIGGELARIA africana Lin. [family FLACOURTIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 65, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
KIGGELARIA africana Lin. [family FLACOURTIACEAE], Sp. 1466;—DC. Prod. 1. p. 257. Lam. Ill. t. 821. Thunb. Cap. p. 395. E. &c. Z.! No. 116.
Information
leaves ovato-lanceolate, serrulate, acute, membranaceous, thinly tomentose on the lower surface, reticulate; styles 5. A much branched, erect shrub, 10–15 feet high, becoming almost a tree. Young twigs thinly tomentose; older with a rough, striate bark. Leaves 2–3 inches long, distantly toothed. Venation-pinnate, with netted intermediate veinlets obvious on both sides.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA In hedges and waste places. Common about Capetown. Tulbagh, Eck. & Zey.! (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.)

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