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Rhus milleri

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Identification
Rhus milleri R. & A. Fern. [family ANACARDIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Fernandez, R.; Fernandes, A., Rhus magalismontana Sond. [family ANACARDIACEAE ]
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  • Rhus milleri
  • Rhus magalismontana

Flora

Entry for Rhus milleri R. & A. Fernandes [family ANACARDIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 2, Part 2, page 550, (1966) Author: Rosette Fernandes and A. Fernandes
Names
Rhus milleri R. & A. Fernandes [family ANACARDIACEAE], in Bol. Soc. Brot., Sér. 2, 38: 188, t. 48 (1964). Type: Bechuanaland Prot., Kanye, Pharing, Miller B/948 (K, holotype; PRE).
Rhus pyroides [family ANACARDIACEAE], sensu O. B. Mill. in Journ. S. Afr. Bot. 18: 47 (1952) pro parte quoad specim. Miller B/392.
Rhus pyroides var. puberula [family ANACARDIACEAE], sensu O. B. Mill., loc. cit. pro parte quoad specim. Hillary & Robertson 585.
Rhus (? sp. nov.) [family ANACARDIACEAE], — O. B. Mill., loc. cit.
Information
Shrub up to 2·4 m. tall; branches cylindric, striate, covered with dark-greyish fissured bark, hispidulous to glabrescent; branchlets reddish, hispidulous and ferrugineous scrofulous-glandular, as also the petioles, panicles and calyx-segments. Petiole 0·5–2 cm. long, canaliculate and marginate or somewhat winged above towards the apex. Leaflets membranous becoming slightly rigid with age, the youngest pale-reddish, the others light-green, hispidulous mainly on the midrib and margins, ± densely-ferrugineous-scrofulous-glandular on both surfaces, entire; median leaflet 1·5–3·5 × 0·6–1·5 cm., obovate or oblanceolate, obtuse, cuneate and somewhat asymmetric at the base; midrib and the delicate lateral nerves prominent on both surfaces; venation raised on both surfaces in the oldest leaves. Panicles terminal and sub terminal, up to 9 cm. long, few-branched; pedicels 0·5–1·25 mm. long; bracts 1·5 mm. long. Male flowers: calyx-segments c. 0·5 mm. long, ovate, obtuse; petals 1 × 0·5 mm., oblong-obtuse.
Habitat
On termite mounds and in savanna-woodlands.
Range
Known at present only from Bechuanaland Prot.
Distribution
Botswana SE Kanye, Pharing, male fl. 15.xi.1948, Hillary & Robertson 585 (K; PRE).

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