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Osyris parvifolia

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Identification
Osyris lanceolata Hochst. & Steud. [family SANTALACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Stauffer, H.U., Osyris wightiana Wall. ex Wight [family SANTALACEAE ] Verified by Stauffer, H.U., Osyris abyssinica Hochst. ex A.Rich. [family SANTALACEAE ] Verified by Stauffer, H.U., Osyris arborea Wall. ex A.DC. [family SANTALACEAE ] Verified by Stauffer, H.U., Osyris pendula Balf.f. [family SANTALACEAE ] Verified by Stauffer, H.U., Osyris tenuifolia Engl. [family SANTALACEAE ] Verified by Stauffer, H.U., Osyris parvifolia Baker [family SANTALACEAE ] Verified by Stauffer, H.U., Osyris pendula Balf.f. [family SANTALACEAE ]
Related name
  • Osyris wightiana
  • Osyris arborea
  • Osyris abyssinica
  • Fusanus alternifolius
  • Osyris lanceolata
  • Unrecorded unrecorded
  • Osyris tenuifolia
  • Osyris parvifolia
  • Osyris pendula

Flora

Entry for OSYRIS parvifolia Baker [family SANTALACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 411, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
OSYRIS parvifolia Baker [family SANTALACEAE]
Information
A shrub about 4 ft. high; branchlets terete, angular and grooved, spreading or erect-patent, minutely puberulous. Leaves shortly petioled, obovate-oblong or oblong, 4–5 lin. long, mucronate, narrowed to the base, very rigid, turning brown when dried, the veins (except the midrib) invisible, minutely puberulous. Male flowers in shortly peduncled axillary, usually 3-flowered, cymes; pedicels 1/2– 3/4 lin. long, minutely puberulous; bracts ovate, minute. Perianth green, urceolate, 1/2– 3/4 lin. long; lobes 3, broadly ovate. Anthers transversely elliptic; style minute. Female flowers and fruit unknown.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Domak, Efat, Roth, 84!

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