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Olea laurifolia

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Identification
Olea laurifolia L. [family OLEACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for OLEA laurifolia Lam. [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
OLEA laurifolia Lam. [family OLEACEAE], Ill. i. 29;—DC. Prodr. viii. 287.
OLEA undulata Jacq. [family OLEACEAE], Hort. Schoenbr. i. 1, t. 2; Bot. Mag. t. 3089; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 379
OLEA undulata E. Meyer var. β [family OLEACEAE], in Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 136, 205
OLEA undulata E. Meyer var. planifolia [family OLEACEAE], Comm. 176.
OLEA capensis Ait. var. β, undulata [family OLEACEAE], Hort. Kew. ed. 2, i. 21.
Sideroxylum foliis oblongis, &c. J. Burm. [family ], Rar. Afr. Pl. 233, t. 81, fig. 1.
Information
a tree with hard wood; branches tuberculate, greyish, terete; leaves usually elliptic-oblong and acute, but varying much in outline, entire, sometimes slightly undulate, glabrous, paler beneath, about 3 in. long and 1 1/4 in. wide; petiole 6 lin. long; panicles terminal, many-flowered, not much longer than the leaves; calyx campanulate, shortly and acutely 4-toothed; corolla white, about 2 lin. in diam.; lobes lanceolate, acute, patent; fruit globose, 3 lin. in diam. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Cape Div.; Cape Town, Zeyher! Swellendam Div.; Grootvaders Bosch, Burchell, 7227! George Div.; in the forest near George, Burchell, 6077! lower part of the Cradock Berg, Burchell, 6013! Knysna Div.; between Keurbooms River and Bitou River, Burchell, 5225! 5227! near Knysna, Burchell, 5497! Uitenhage Div.; Zuurberg Range, Drège! Van Stadens River, Bolus, 1210! Port Elizabeth Div.; sand hills by the sea-shore, Burchell, 4298! Krakakamma, Burchell, 4516! Albany Div.; between the source of Kasuga River and Assegai Bush, Burchell, 4159! Bathurst Div.; near Port Alfred, Burchell, 3815! Var. β: Tulbagh Div.; between New Kloof and Elands Kloof, 1000–2000 ft., Drège! Piquetberg Div.; Olifants River Mountains, Zeyher, 1150!EASTERN REGION Natal; Inanda, Wood, 500!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Mund! Villette! Thom, 484! Sieber, 219! Pappe!
Notes
The variety concolor is connected with the typical form by Burchell's 7227, in which, however, the shining green upper surface of the leaf contrasts with the dull lower surface. Under cultivation the leaves become undulate at the margin.

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