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Osyris abyssinica

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Identification
Osyris abyssinica A.Rich. [family SANTALACEAE ] Verified by Polhill, R.M., Osyris abyssinica Hochst. ex A.Rich. [family SANTALACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Osyris wightiana
  • Osyris arborea
  • Osyris lanceolata
  • Osyris quadripartita
  • Osyris tenuifolia
  • Colpoon speciosum
  • Fusanus compressus
  • Osyris parvifolia
  • Osyris abissinica
  • Osyris pendula
  • Osyris abyssinica
  • Colpoon compressum
  • Fusanus alternifolius
  • Osyris speciosa
  • Unrecorded unrecorded

Flora

Entry for OSYRIS abyssinica Hochst. [family SANTALACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, Part 2, page 135, (1925) Author: (By A. W. HILL.)
Names
OSYRIS abyssinica Hochst. [family SANTALACEAE], in Flora, 1841, i. Intell. 22, name only;—A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 236; A.DC. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 633; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 199; Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 55; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. ii. 152; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 938; Baker & Hill in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 433.
OSYRIS compressa A.DC. [family SANTALACEAE], in DC. Prodr. xiv. 634; Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 305
OSYRIS compressa A.DC. var. β oblongifolia [family SANTALACEAE], l.c.
Fusanus alternifolia R. Br. [family ], in Salt, Abyss. App. lxiii., name only.
Colpoon compressum Berg. [family SANTALACEAE], Descr. Pl. Cap. 38, t. 1, fig. 1.
Fusanus compressus Lam. [family ], Ill. iii. 435, t. 842, Sond. in Flora, 1857, 365.
Information
a much-branched shrub, 6–8 ft. high, glabrous in all its parts; leaves alternate, subopposite or opposite, shortly petioled, oblong, 1–3 in. long, mucronate, narrowed to the base, rigidly coriaceous, glaucous, veins (except the midrib) immersed and almost invisible; male flowers in shortly peduncled axillary umbellate cymes; bracts minute, lanceolate; pedicels larger than the flowers; buds globose, 1/2 lin. in diam.; perianth-lobes 3 or 4, ovate-triangular, with a conspicuous disc; female flowers usually solitary; berry oblong, scarlet, the size of a small pea. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa.
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div.; mountain above Commadagga, Burchell, 3327! Graaf Reinet Div.; Compass Berg, Shaw! Voor Sneeuw Berg, Burchell, 2858! Cave Mountain, near Graaff Reinet, 3500 ft., Bolus, 207! Oude Berg, near Graaff Reinet, 3800 ft., Bolus, 207! Aliwal North Div.; Elands Hoek, near Aliwal North, Bolus, 194! Colesberg Div.; Colesberg, Arnott! Philipstown Div.; near Petrusville, Burchell, 2696! Bavers Pan, Burchell, 2715!COAST REGION Cape Div.; Fish Hoek, Wolley-Dod, 667! Camps Bay, Zeyher, 311! Burchell, 368! 842! Simons Bay, Grey! Wright! Table Mountain, Thunberg! MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 574! Drège, a! and without precis elocality, Hooker! Armstrong! Wallich! Pappe! Stellenbosch Div.; near Lowrys Pass, Burchell, 8284! Riversdale Div.; Garcias Pass, Phillips, 399! near Zoetemelks River, Burchell, 6629; Mossel Bay Div.; near landing place at Mossel Bay, Burchell, 6245! Knysna Div.; Plettenbergs Bay, Burchell, 5327! Humansdorp Div.; north side of Kromme River, Burchell, 4853! Albany Div.; Grahamstown, MacOwan, 43! Broekhuisens Poort 1500–2000 ft., Galpin, 22! Queenstown Div.; mountain gullies near Queenstown, 4000 ft., Galpin, 1577! British Kaffraria and Eastern Districts, Cooper, 50! 225! Var. β: Caledon Div.; near Houw Hoek, 1100 ft., Bolus! near Hermanus Pieters Fontein, 100 ft., Bolus!EASTERN REGION Natal; Murchison, 1000 ft., Wood, 3004! Alexandra Dist.: Dumisa, 2300 ft., Rudatis, 1128!KALAHARI REGION Orange River Colony; Doorn Kop, Burke! and without precise locality, Cooper, 3096! Transvaal; Pretoria, Aapies Poort, Rehmann, 4051! Meintjes Kop, 4575–4775 ft., Burtt-Davy, 5033! Wonderboom Poort, 4600 ft., Miss Leendertz, 435! 268! Moordrift, Miss Leendertz, 2168!
Notes
Cooper on his label to No. 50 British Kaffraria adds “Bark Bosch” used for tanning leather, and Bolus makes a similar remark on his sheets 207, and gives the name “Wilde Granaat”—fruits edible.

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