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Olea hochstetteri

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Name

Identification
Olea hochstetteri Baker [family OLEACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Olea capensis
  • Olea laurifolia
  • Olea undulata
  • Olea hochstetteri

Flora

Entry for OLEA Hochstetteri Baker [family OLEACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 4, Part 1, page 1, (1904) Author: (By J. G. Baker.)
Names
OLEA Hochstetteri Baker [family OLEACEAE]
OLEA laurifolia Hochst. ex A. Rich. [family OLEACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 28; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 333; Knobl. in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 533 partly, not of Lam.
Information
A tall tree with naked branchlets. Leaves oblong, 3–4 in. long, 1–1 1/2 in. broad at the middle, deltoid at the apex and base, minutely cuspidate, subcoriaceous, bright green above, paler green and nearly or quite naked beneath; petiole 1/2– 3/4 in. long. Panicles lateral and terminal, sparsely compound, 1 1/2–2 in. long; flowers clustered at the tip of the branches; bracts small, ovate. Calyx campanulate, 1/2 lin. long, obscurely toothed. Corolla white, 1/6 in. long; lobes ovate, much longer than the tube.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Samen; Mount Aber above Adesila, Schimper, 871!
Notes
The South African O. laurifolia, Lam. (O. undulata, Jacq. Hort. Schœnbr. t. 2) has a much more compound inflorescence and a deeply-lobed calyx.

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