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Monospora grandifolia

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Name

Identification
Trimeria grandifolia (Hochst.) Warb. [family FLACOURTIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Sleumer, H., Antidesma alnifolium Hook. [family FLACOURTIACEAE ] Verified by Sleumer, H., Monospora grandifolia Hochst. [family FLACOURTIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Antidesma alnifolium
  • Trimeria grandifolia
  • Monospora grandifolia
  • Trimeria unrecorded

Flora

Entry for TRIMERIA alnifolia Planch. [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
TRIMERIA alnifolia Planch. [family FLACOURTIACEAE], in Herb. Hook.
Antidesma? alnifolia Hook. [family ], Ic. t. 481.
Monospora grandifolia Hochst. [family ], Pl. Kraus. (160).
Information
leaves orbicular or obovate, very obtuse or immarginate, serrate, glabrescent, many-nerved at base; male spikes much branched, female simple; perianth 4–5-merous; stamens 10–12, filaments hairy. A large arborescent shrub, 10–12 feet high. Young twigs pubescent. Leaves 2 inches long and rather more in breadth, sub-rotund, coarsely but irregularly serrate, sprinkled with small hairs or glabrescent. Male spikes much branched and twice as long as petiole. Perianth 8–10 parted, in two rows. Capsule 3-cornered, longer than its breadth, turbinate; seed solitary, the testa elegantly pitted.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Eastern districts. Knysna, Mr. Bowie. Caffirland, Rev. J. Brownlee. Port Natal, Krauss, Gueinzius. (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.)
Notes
ADDENDA : page 69, after P. alnifolia, add Drege, 4613, E. & Z. Urtic. 3.

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