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Menodora africana

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Identification
Menodora africana Hook. [family OLEACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for MENODORA africana Hook. [family OLEACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 478, (1909) Author: By W. H. HARVEY, with additions by C. H. WRIGHT.
Names
MENODORA africana Hook. [family OLEACEAE], Ic. Pl. t. 586
Information
root simple; stems diffuse, many from the crown, branched, closely leafy throughout; leaves alternate, short, bipinnately multifid, glabrous; lobes narrow-linear, nerved beneath, acute; flowers terminal, solitary; calyx-limb multipartite, with filiform or pinnatifid lobes. Root fusiform, deeply descending. Stems 4–12 in. long, diffuse or ascending, scaberulous. Leaves scarcely 1/2 in. long, multifid. Flowers yellow.
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; by the Tugela River, near Colenso, Wood, 758! 3550! Bushmans River, Gerrard, 631! Zululand, Miss Owen!KALAHARI REGION Griqualand West; Dutoits Pan, Tuck! Barkly, Nelson, 175! on Flats, Mrs. Barber, 2! Orange River Colony; Great Vet River, Burke, 134! Boshof, Mrs. Barber! Bechuanaland; near Kuruman, Burchell, 2430! near the sources of the Kuruman River, Burchell, 2460! 2478! 2485! 2533! Transvaal; near Pretoria, McLea in Herb. Bolus, 3104! Derde Poort, Leendertz, 369! near Irene, Burtt-Davy, 2308! Magalies Berg, Zeyher, 1132! near Lydenburg, Wilms, 1068! Crocodile Valley, near Barberton, Galpin, 1071! near Potchefstroom, Nelson, 342!

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