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Mercurialis serrata

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Name

Identification
Mercurialis serrata Meisn. [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
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Flora

Entry for ADENOCLINE ovalifolia Turcz. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, Part 2, page 216, (1925) Author: (By N. E. BROWN, J. HUTCHINSON and D. PRAIN.)
Names
ADENOCLINE ovalifolia Turcz. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. xvi. 60;—Turcz. in Flora, 1844, 121, and in Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. xxv. ii. 179; Prain in Ann. Bot. xxvii. 406.
ADENOCLINE humilis Baill. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Étud. Gén. Euphorb. 457; not of Turcz.
ADENOCLINE pauciflora Müll. Arg. var. β ovalifolia [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1139
ADENOCLINE pauciflora Müll. Arg. var. δ bupleuroides [family EUPHORBIACEAE], l.c. 1140, partly and as to Zeyher 1516 only.
ADENOCLINE pauciflora Müll. Arg. var. ε serrata [family EUPHORBIACEAE], l.c. 1140.
Trianthema debilis Spreng. ex Turcz. [family AIZOACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. xvi. 60, and
Trianthema dubium Spreng. ex Turcz. [family AIZOACEAE], l.c. xxv. ii. 179.
Mercurialis serrata Meisn. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 557; Krauss in Flora, 1845, 84.
Mercurialis bupleuroides? Kunze [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Linnæa, xx. 54, mainly, but excl. M. Zeyheri, Kunze; Baill. Adansonia, iii. 159, partly; not of Meisn.
Diplostylis serrata Sond. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Linnæa, xxiii. 114, partly and as to Zeyher, 1516 and Ecklon & Zeyher, 39, partly.
Information
a diœcious herb with numerous slender procumbent laxly branching stems radiating from a vertical perennial woody base, which is 3–4 in. long, the herbaceous stems 1–1 1/2 ft. long; leaves alternate, distinctly petioled, membranous, below ovate, acute, base rounded, gradually narrowing upwards to ovate-lanceolate with base cuneate, margin closely sharply serrate, 1/2– 2/3 in. long, 1/4– 1/3 in. wide, glabrous on both surfaces; petiole 1/4– 1/3 in. long below, 1/6 in. long towards the ends of the branches, glabrous; stipules foliaceous, often rather large and ovate-lanceolate, 1/4– 1/3 in. long, with margin serrate or subentire, but usually lanceolate, 1/5– 1/4 in. long, with margin deeply incised; male flowers in axils of reduced leaves towards ends of branches, several to an axil; female flowers solitary, leaf-opposed, their pedicels abruptly reflexed; calyx-segments in both sexes 5; stamens usually 10; ovary glabrous; capsule 1 1/2 lin. wide, 3-dymous, smooth; seeds ovoid-globose, pale greyish-green. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Cape Div.; Hout Bay, 0–150 ft., Krauss, 1190; Bolus, 7059! and in Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr. 1093! Schlechter, 958! Wolley-Dod, 1652! Simonstown, by Ncahs Ark Battery, Wolley-Dod, 2819, partly! Sandhills on Cape Flats, Wolley-Dod, 1882! Wynberg Hill, Harvey! Lion Mountain, Harvey! Swellendam Div.; without precise locality, Mund (Ecklon & Zeyher, 39, partly)! Riversdale Div.; Kaffir Kuils River, Stack (Zeyher, 1516)! East London Div.; East London, Wood, 3137! Komgha Div.; near Kei River Mouth, Flanagan, 842! Var. β: Cape Div.; Simonstown, by Noahs Ark Battery, Wolley-Dod, 2819, mainly!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Masson! Harvey, 626! and cultivated specimens!

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