Entry for PHYTOLACCA stricta Hoffm. [family PHYTOLACCACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 151, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
PHYTOLACCA strictaHoffm. [family PHYTOLACCACEAE], in Com. Goett. 12. p. 27. t. 3
PHYTOLACCA heptandraRetz. [family PHYTOLACCACEAE]
Pircunia strictaMoq. [family ], in DC. l. c. p. 30.
Information
stem shrubby at base, ascending or erect, furrowed, glabrous; leaves lanceolate, obtuse; mucronate, narrowed at base, and decurrent into a short petiole, roughish; racemes pedunculate, the rachis furrowed; glabrous or rough; sepals herbaceous, white-edged, spreading; stamens 7–8; carpels 6–7. Stems 1–2 feet high, sub-erect. Leaves varying much in comparative length and breadth, 3–4 inches long and 1/2 inch wide, or 2 inches long and 1 inch wide, sometimes ovato-lanceolate or oval. Peduncle long or short: the pedicels equalling the greenish flowers. Fruit blackish-purple, succulent; the calyx not reflexed.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Between the Fish River and Fort Beaufort, Drege! Orange River, Drege! Burke! Caledon River, Burke and Zeyher! Caffraria, Mrs. Barber! (Herb. Hook., T.C.D.).
