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Kiggelaria dregeana

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Name

Identification
Kigellaria africana L. [family FLACOURTIACEAE ] (stored under name); Kiggelaria dregeana Turcz. [family FLACOURTIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Kiggelaria integrifolia
  • Kigellaria africana
  • Kiggelaria dregeana
  • Kiggelaria not on sheet
  • Kiggelaria unrecorded
  • Kiggelaria drageana
  • Kiggelaria africana

Flora

Entry for KIGGELARIA Dregeana Turcz. [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 Dregeana Turcz. [family FLACOURTIACEAE], Animad. p. 63
Information
leaves either lanceolate and acute at both ends or elliptic-oblong, and obtuse, entire, membranaceous, green and glabrescent above, pale and minutely canescent below; male cymes lax, petals longer than the sepals, their glands ovate, free above. Leaves of smaller size and thinner substance than in K. africana; their margin quite entire. The young leaves have a few scattered stellate hairs on the upper surface; the under side is always whitish with minute stellate down. The form is very variable, even on the same bush. Turczaninow says “floribus octandris,” but I find ten stamens both in Drege's and Ecklon's specimens. The styles have fallen on our specimens, but there are 5 scars on the vertex of the fruit.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Zuureberge, 2000ft. Drege! Sitzekamma, Oliphant's Hoek, and Kaffraria, E. & Z.! (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.)
Notes
Kiggelaria integrifolia, Jacq. is a nonentity, as appears by reference to Jac. Ic. Rar. Vol. 3. p. 19, where this author states that on a re-examination of the flowers of his plant he finds that the corolla is monopetalous; and then refers his supposed Kiggelaria to Royena polyandra, L. f. (Euclea elliptica, DC.)! It is strange that this should have escaped the notice of recent writers who continue to quote Jacquin as an authority.

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