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Rhus transvaalensis

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Identification
Rhus transvaalensis Engl. [family ANACARDIACEAE ]
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Entry for Rhus transvaalensis [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 transvaalensis [family ANACARDIACEAE]
Common names
Toxicodendron transvaalense (Engl.) Kuntze: 154 (1891). R. eburnea Schonl.: 67, t. p. 67 (1930); Burtt Davy: 504 (1932). Type: Transvaal, Pilgrim's Rest District, Mariepskop Forest Reserve, Keet 1457(1547 vide Schonl., sphalm.) (GRA, holo.!; K, iso.!).
Information
Lax, many-stemmed shrub up to 2 m high, rarely small tree up to 4 m with pendulous pale branches. Bark smooth; young branches tomen-tose or glabrescent. Leaves trifoliolate, petiolate; petiole shallowly canaliculate above, pilose or glabrous, (5—)16(—37) mm long; leaflets subses-sile, subcoriaceous, glabrous, dark green above, pale olive below, hypostomatous; lamina elliptic to narrowly elliptic, base cuneate to attenuate, apex acute, mucronulate; margin entire, weakly revolute; venation somewhat kladodromous; midrib yellow, prominent below, impressed above, other veins impressed above and below; terminal leaflets (12-)36(-60) x (3-)12(-19) mm, lateral leaflets (7-)23(-40) x (3-)9(-18) mm. Panicles numerous, relatively short (up to 50 mm long), mostly axillary, also terminal. Flowers normal. Drupe circular, globoid, gla­brous, shiny, yellowish becoming light brown when mature 3,9 x 3,4 to 4,9 x 4,8 mm. Fig. 8.
Habitat
Rhus transvaalensis occurs along the edges of forests and streams. In the Mariepskop Forest Reserve near Sabie, Keet (Keet 1457 in PRE) stated that it (R. eburnea Schonl.) formed one of the chief constituents of the 'fynbos'.
Use
4. Rhus transvaalensis Engl, in A. & C. DC, Monographiae phanerogamarum 4: 440 (1883); Schonl.: 53, t. p. 53 (1930); Burtt Davy: 497 (1932). Type: Transvaal, Houtbosch, Rehmann 5559 (Z, lecto.! here designated; GRA!, isolecto.).
Range
Common in the Soutpansberg and along the mountains of the north-eastern and eastern Transvaal reaching Swaziland and northern Natal. Also occurs in the eastern Transvaal Lowveld. Flowering recorded from October to December. Map 4.

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