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Pappea capensis

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Name

Identification
Pappea schumanniana Schinz [family SAPINDACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Pappea capensis Eckl.&Zeyh. [family SAPINDACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Pappea capensis Eckl.&Zeyh. [family SAPINDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Pappea fulva
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  • Choritaenia capensis
  • Acrophyllum obtusum
  • Pappea radlkoferi
  • Rhus oblongifolia
  • Sapindus oblongifolius
  • Kiggelaria africana
  • Pappea schumanniana
  • Deinbollia oblongifolia
  • Pappea ugandensis
  • Sapindus pappea

Flora

Entry for SAPINDUS Pappea Sond. [family SAPINDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 236, (1894) Author: (By W. SONDER.)
Names
SAPINDUS Pappea Sond. [family SAPINDACEAE]
Pappea capensis E. & Z. [family SAPINDACEAE], ! En. p. 53. Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 352. Pappe, Fl. Med. p. 3. Sylv. Cap. p. 6.
Kiggelaria integrifolia E. Mey. [family FLACOURTIACEAE], ! Hb. Drege, non Jacq.
Information
branches and leaves glabrous; leaves simple, alternate, obovate-oblong, obtuse at base, unequal, with revolute margins; racemes crowded to the ends of the branches, the male racemes equalling the leaves, the female 3–8-flowered, shorter. A tree 15–20 feet high, with hard wood. Branches spreading, ash-coloured. Leaves crowded at the ends of the branches, 1 1/2–3 inches long, 6–10 lines wide, pale underneath. Racemes 1–2 inches long. Flowers minute. Calyx 1/2 line long. Stamens with woolly filaments, exserted. Ovary hairy, 3-celled, cells 1-ovuled. Fruit globose, fleshy, downy, red, about as large as a small cherry.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA In woods, between the Zwartkop's and Coega River, Uit.; and in the Bothasberge, near the Fish River, Albany, E. & Z.! Zey. No. 151. At Silverfontein, Namaqualand, 2–3000 f., Drege! Sep.-Nov. (Herb. Hook., T.C.D., Sond.).
Notes
The fruit, called “Wilde Preume, Oliepitten, Wilde Amandel, t'Kaambesje,” is edible, and a bland oil is expressed from the seeds.

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