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Ochna arborea

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Name

Identification
Ochna arborea Burch. ex DC. [family OCHNACEAE ]
Related name
  • Ochna arborea

Flora

Entry for OCHNA arborea Burch. [family OCHNACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 448, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
OCHNA arborea Burch. [family OCHNACEAE], Cat. No. 4012;—DC. Prod. 1. p. 736.
Diporidium arboreum Wendl. [family OCHNACEAE], E. & Z.! 925.
Diporidium delagoense E. & Z. [family OCHNACEAE], ! 926.
Information
leaves elliptical or ovate-oblong, obtuse or sub-acute, sub-entire or obscurely denticulate; pedicels subternate or in short, 3–4 flowered racemules; sepals ovate-elliptical, concave, enlarged and red-brown in fruit; anthers longer than the filaments, opening by small, terminal pores; style sub-entire. A tree, 20–40 feet high. Twigs with greyish bark, often cracked or pustulated. Petioles 1 line long or less. Leaves 1–2 1/2 inches long, 1/2–1 inch wide, rigid, reticulated with more or less prominent veinlets, either quite entire or with very shallow or obsolete serratures, variable in shape. Pedicels either axillary or ending short branchlets.—Known from the last by its arborescent habit, and larger and nearly entire and paler leaves. Shoots from the root occasionally produce flowers, and on one of these Ecklon and Zeyher found their O. Delagoense.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Woods in Uitenhage and Albany, Caffraria, and Port Natal, frequent. Delagoa Bay, Forbes! (Herb. Hook., T.C.D., Sond.)

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