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Rhus tomentosa

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Identification
Rhus tomentosa L. [family ANACARDIACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for RHUS tomentosa L. [family ANACARDIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 502, (1894) Author: (By W. SONDER.)
Names
RHUS tomentosa L. [family ANACARDIACEAE], spec. 382;—Comm. hort. Amst. I. t. 92. Thunb.! prod. p. 52. Flor. cap. p. 266. DC. l. c. p. 73. E. & Z.! n. 1109. Herb. Un. itin. n. 686. Sieb. exs. n. 155.
RHUS Ecklonis Schrad. [family ANACARDIACEAE], ! hort. Gætt.
RHUS elliptica E. Mey. [family ANACARDIACEAE], ! Zey.! n. 2232, 2234. Pappe. Sylv. cap. p. 13.
Information
branches puberulous or glabrous; leaves petiolate; leaflets elliptic or ovate, acute, or acuminated at both ends, entire or coarsely serrated from the middle to the apex, smoothish above, whitish-tomentose beneath; panicles terminal, downy, longer than the leaves; drupe depressed, globose, pubescent. A shrub or tree, height of trunk 2–3 feet, diameter 3–4 inches. Branches somewhat patent, branchlets brownish-purple. Leaflets green and costate above, ribbed below, quite entire or with 3–6 teeth, the lateral ones smaller, the terminal 1 1/2–2 inches long, 1–1 1/4 inch wide, in var. β. 1 1/2–2 1/2 inches long, 6–8 lines wide. Common petiole 1/2–1 inch or longer, sub-terete; petiolules in var. α. very short or wanting, in var. β. 3–6 lines long. Panicles mostly terminal, elongated; flowers minute. Fruit the size of a small pea.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Everywhere on the slopes of the mountains of the Cape, Stellenbosch, Worcester, and Uitenhage districts. Jul.-Sept. (Herb. Thunb., Sond., T.C.D., &c.)

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