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Royena hirsuta

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Identification
Royena hirsuta L. [family EBENACEAE ]
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  • Royena hirsuta

Flora

Entry for ROYENA hirsuta Linn. [family EBENACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 444, (1909) Author: By W. P. HIERN.
Names
ROYENA hirsuta Linn. [family EBENACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. i. 397;—Thunb. Prodr. 80, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 391; Poir. Encycl. vi. 321; Lam. Encycl. t. 370, fig. 2; Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 47, 56, 62, 217; Alph. DC. Prodr. viii. 212; Hiern in Trans. Cambr. Phil. Soc. xii. 83; Parmentier in Ann. Univ. Lyon, vi. fasc. ii. 73, not of Jacq., nor of Sieb., nor of Eckl.
ROYENA angustifolia Willd. [family EBENACEAE], Sp. Pl. ii. 633; Poir. Encycl. vi. 322; Alph. DC., l.c.; Parmentier, l.c. 72; Willd. Herb. n. 8367!; Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 67, 70, 217.
Diospyros hirsuta Desf. [family EBENACEAE], in Ann. Mus. Par. vi. 449, t. 62, f. 2; not of Linn. f.
Diospyros pubescens Pers. [family EBENACEAE], Syn. Pl. ii. 625; not of Pursh.
ROYENA microphylla Burchell [family EBENACEAE], Trav. S. Afr. i. 348, note; Alph. DC., l.c.
ROYENA rugosa E. Meyer ex Drège [family EBENACEAE], Cat. Pl. Exsicc. Afr.-Austr. 7; Drège, l.c. 113, 217; Alph. DC. l.c.; Krauss in Flora, 1844, 824.
ROYENA media Cels [family EBENACEAE], Cat. 1817, 33, name only.
ROYENA cuneata Poir. [family EBENACEAE], Encycl. vi. 322; Alph. DC. Prodr, l.c. 215.
Arbutus foliis lanceolatis integerrimis hirsutis Linn. [family ERICACEAE], Hort. Cliff. 163.
Staphylodendron Africanum folio lanuginoso Rosmarini latiori Boerh. [family ], Ind. alt. ii. 235, ex Mill. Gard. Dict. ed. 7, n. 3.
Information
a rigid shrub, closely branched, more or less downy-hoary or tomentose, 1 1/2–15 ft. high; branches terete, spreading, dusky or ashy; branchlets densely leafy, knotty; leaves alternate, oblanceolate, obtuse, rounded, apiculate or subacute at the apex, wedge-shaped or somewhat narrowed at the base, coriaceous, rigid, entire, nearly flat or revolute along the margin, hairy and rugose with raised midrib and more or less conspicuous veins or pitted beneath, sometimes deciduous, subsessile or shortly petiolate, 1/4–1 in. long, 1/10– 1/4 in. broad; petiole very short or ranging up to 1/4 in. long; flowers usually hermaphrodite, occasionally diœcious, white, pink or scarlet, 1/6– 1/4 in. long; peduncles axillary, 1-flowered, arching or deflexed, shorter than or equalling the flowers, 1/10– 1/4 in. long, usually bibracteate about or above the middle; bracts narrow, often deciduous, about 1/12 in. long; flowering calyx subcampanulate, deeply 5-lobed, hairy on both sides, 1/8– 1/6 in. long; lobes ovate and erect; corolla urceolate, 5-cleft, grey-felted outside, puberulous within; lobes ovate or lanceolate-oblong, rounded or obtuse at the apex, equalling the tube and reflexed; stamens usually 10; filaments short, dilated; anthers lanceolate, hairy; ovary ovoid-conical, shaggy, 4–8-celled, in the female flowers with small glands at the base alternating with 6–9 staminodes; styles usually 2, occasionally 3 or 4; stigmas glabrous, more or less dilated, emarginate; fruit globose or rarely obovoid, 1/3– 1/2 in. long, more or less tomentose, red or pallid-tawny, often dehiscent from the apex with 2–5 valves, based with the accrescent calyx; fruiting calyx deeply 5-lobed, pubescent, 1/4 in. long or more; lobes broad or oblong, erect or reflexed; seeds 4–8. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Calvinia Div.; Bokfontein, 2500 ft., Drège! Worcester Div.; Baviaans Krantz, Rehmann, 2885! Beaufort West Div.; Nieuweveld Mountains near Beaufort West, 3000–5000 ft., Drège! Somerset Div.; Bruintjes Hoogte, 3500 ft., MacOwan, 1984! Graaff Reinet Div.; Oude Berg, 3000–4000 ft., Drège; mountains near Graaff Reinet, 3000–4000 ft., Drège, Bolus, 470! Aberdeen Div.; Cambeboo, near Hamer Kuil, 3000 ft., Drège! Var. β: Graaff Reinet Div.; on hills near Graaff Reinet, 2500–3300 ft., Bolus, 616!COAST REGION Clanwilliam Div.; Clanwilliam, 300 ft., Schlechter, 8008! Olifants River and Brakfontein, Ecklon & Zeyher! Zeyher, 3351! Malmesbury Div.; Groene Kloof (Mamre), and between Groene Kloof and Saldhana Bay, below 500 ft., Drège! Cape Div.; Cape Flats, Krauss, 1719! Herb. Linneus! Caledon Div.; by the Zondereinde River, Burchell, 7537! Swellendam Div.; between Swellendam and the Breede River, Burchell, 7446! Hessaquas Kloof, Burchell, 7531! on plains and near rivers, Bowie! near the lower part of the Zondereinde River, Zeyher, 3350! Grootvaders Bosch and adjacent mountains, Ecklon & Zeyher! Unioudale Div.; Lange Kloof, Burchell, 4898! Bowie! Humansdorp Div.; near Humansdorp, MacOwan, 269! Albany Div.; Bowie! Queenstown Div.; near Queenstown, Cooper, 212! Guildford, near Tylden, 3500 ft., Galpin, 1565! hills near the Zwart Kei River, Barber, 311! Winterberg Range, on the highest hills between Tarka and Kat Berg, Ecklon & Zeyher! Bowkers Park, 4750 ft., Galpin, 2570!EASTERN REGION Natal; near Van Reenen, 5500 ft., Schlechter, 6956! Wood, 5658! near the Tugela River, 4000 ft., Wood, 3592! bank of the Mooi River, 5000 ft., Sutherland! Washbank, Newcastle district, 3000–4000 ft., Wood, 7904!KALAHARI REGION Griqualand West; Barkly West, 4000 ft., Marloth, 1010. Hay Div.; between Wittewater and Griqua Town, Burchell, 1696! Orange River Colony; Bloemfontein, Kuntze; and without precise locality, Cooper, 2688! 844! Bechuanaland; near the sources of the Kuruman River, Burchell, 2502! Transvaal; Waterval River, Wilms, 919! hills near Aapies River, Rehmann, 4334! Klipriver Berg, near Johannesburg, Rand, 884!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Auge! Masson! Oldenburg! Thunberg! Verreaux!WESTERN REGION Little Namaqualand; between Pedros Kloof and Lily Fontein, 3000–4000 ft., Drège! near Ookiep, 3300 ft., Bolus in Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 636!
Notes
There is considerable variation, as was d by Thunberg, both in the size of the leaves and in the abundance of the tomentum; the form which has the smallest leaves is R. microphylla, Burchell, 1696, 2502. R. hirsuta, Herb. Ecklon, 698, is R. lucida, Linn. The Hottentot name of var. β is “Grietie-Rom”; it flowers either in spring (October) or in autumn (April), according to the rains, the more usual season being the spring (Bolus, MS.).

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