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Phytolacca scandens

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Identification
Phytolacca scandens Hilsenb. & Boj. [family PHYTOLACCACEAE ] Phytolacca dodecandra L'Hér. [family PHYTOLACCACEAE ] Phytolacca dodecandra L'Hér. [family PHYTOLACCACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Phytolacca scandens
  • Phytolacca dodecandra
  • Phytolacca abyssinica

Flora

Entry for PHYTOLACCA dodecandra L'Hérit. [family PHYTOLACCACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 454, (1912) Author: By A. W. HILL.
Names
PHYTOLACCA dodecandra L'Hérit. [family PHYTOLACCACEAE], Stirp. 143, t. 69;—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 901; Baker & C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 97; Walter in Engl. Pflanzenr. iv. 83, 42, fig. 15.
PHYTOLACCA abyssinica Hoffm. [family PHYTOLACCACEAE], in Comm. Goett. xii. 25, t. 2; T. Thoms. in Speke, Nile, Append. 646; Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 140, and ser. 2, Bot. ii. 348; Heimerl in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 1B, 11; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 209, and Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 175; Wood, Natal Pl. t. 263; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. Append. ii. 164, not of Hook. & Arn.
PHYTOLACCA elongata Salisb. [family PHYTOLACCACEAE], Prodr. 345.
PHYTOLACCA lutea Marsigl. ex Steud. [family PHYTOLACCACEAE], Nom. ed. 1, 618.
PHYTOLACCA scandens Hilsenb. et Boj. ex Moquin [family PHYTOLACCACEAE], in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 30.
Pircunia abyssinica Moquin [family ], in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 30; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 58
Pircunia abyssinica A. Rich. var. latifolia [family ], Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 222.
Pircunia saponacea Welw. [family ], Apont. 558.
Information
a woody climber; stems slender, sometimes 15–20 ft. long; leaves alternate, ovate or oblong, acute, 3–4 in. long, cuneate or rounded at the base, distinctly petioled; racemes dense, many-flowered, at first 3–4 in., finally 1/2–1 ft. long; rhachis pubescent; pedicels erect-patent, as long as or longer than the flowers; bracts minute, lanceolate, greenish; flowers hermaphrodite; perianth greenish, campanulate, 1–1 1/2 lin. long; segments ovate, finally reflexed; stamens 10–20, much longer than the perianth; carpels 5–8; fruit bright red; pulp staining the fingers yellow; carpels about 5, not connate. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa.
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; between Umzimkulu River and Umkomanzi River, Drège! Inanda, Wood, 949! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 130!

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