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Rhus batophylla

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Isoparatype of Rhus batophylla Codd [family ANACARDIACEAE]
Isotype of Rhus batophylla Codd [family ANACARDIACEAE]
Isotype of Rhus batophylla Codd [family ANACARDIACEAE]
Isotype of Rhus batophylla Codd [family ANACARDIACEAE]
Isotype of Rhus batophylla Codd [family ANACARDIACEAE]
Holotype of Rhus batophylla Codd [family ANACARDIACEAE]
Isoparatype of Rhus batophylla Codd [family ANACARDIACEAE]
Isotype of Rhus batophylla Codd [family ANACARDIACEAE]
Isotype of Rhus batophylla Codd [family ANACARDIACEAE]
Isotype of Rhus batophylla Codd [family ANACARDIACEAE]
Isoparatype of Rhus batophylla Codd [family ANACARDIACEAE]
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Identification
Isotype of Rhus batophylla Codd [family ANACARDIACEAE ] Rhus batophylla Codd [family ANACARDIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Rhus batophylla

Flora

Entry for Rhus batophylla [family ANACARDIACEAE]
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Rhus batophylla [family ANACARDIACEAE]
Information
Shrub up to 2 m high, branching freely from the base. Bark smooth, reddish; branches erect, somewhat arched, lanate. Leaves trifoliolate, petiolate; petiole lanate, semiterete, flat or slight­ly canaliculate above (3—)11(—17) mm long; leaflets sessile, coriaceous, slightly rugose, con-duplicate, discolorous, greyish green and thinly villous-lanate above, canescent to white and densely lanate-lumbricate below, hypostomatous; lamina ovate to elliptic, recurved, base obtuse to cuneate, apex acuminate, mucronulate; margin prominently dentate-serrate, teeth mucronulate; venation simple craspedodromous, midrib and secondaries prominent below, impressed above, other veins forming a prominent reticulum above; terminal leaflets (23-)42(-69) x (10-)26(-54) mm, lateral leaflets (13-)25(-50) x (8-)16 (—34) mm. Panicles lanate, axillary and terminal, exposed, males up to 180 mm long, subsessile flowers crowded on short side branches. Flowers normal. Drupe asymmetrically rhombic, lenticu­lar, glabrous, dark red, drying brown, 5,0 x 2,1 to 6,8 x 3,2 mm.
Habitat
The white bramble-like leaflets and distinct red to brown fruits, separate R. batophylla from all other species in the subgenus.
Use
63. Rhus batophylla Codd in Bothalia 6,3: 539, t. 1 (1956); Codd: t. 1549 (1969). Type: Eastern Transvaal, Steelpoort District, Mooihoek Chrome Mine, 2,4 km west of Driehoek, 900 m, 23.3.1953, Codd & Dyer 7699 (PRE, holo.!; BM!, BR!, K!, M !, P!, St, SRGH!, UPS!, iso.).
Range
Found only in the Steelpoort area of the eastern Transvaal where it grows along watercourses in the vicinity of the chrome mines. Flowering recorded in March. Map 53.

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