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Royena sericea

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Identification
Diospyros lycioides (Benth.) DeWinter [family EBENACEAE ] (stored under name); Royena sericea Benth. [family EBENACEAE ]
Related name
  • Royena sericea
  • Diospyros lycioides
  • Royena ambigua
  • Royena pallens

Flora

Entry for ROYENA pallens Thunb. [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 pallens Thunb. [family EBENACEAE], Prodr. 80;—Poir. Encycl. vi. 322; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 391; Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 137, 217; Alph. DC. Prodr. viii. 213; Hiern in Trans. Cambr. Phil. Soc. xii. 85; Parmentier in Ann. Univers. Lyon, vi. fasc. ii. 71; Hiern in Oliver, Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. 510; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 647; Melliss, St. Helena, 294; Schinz, Deutsch Südwest Afrika, 66; not of Herb. Willd. n. 8363!
ROYENA pallens Alph. var. β. Dregei [family EBENACEAE], DC. Prodr. viii. 214.
ROYENA hirsuta Jacq. [family EBENACEAE], Collect. v. 110, t. 13, f. 1; not of Linn., nor of Sieber, nor of Ecklon.
ROYENA lycioides Desf. [family EBENACEAE], Tabl. Ecole Bot. 79; Alph. DC. Prodr. viii. 214.
Diospyros lycioides Desf. [family EBENACEAE], in Ann. Mus. Paris, vi. 448, t. 62, f. 1.
ROYENA pubescens Willd. [family EBENACEAE], Enum. Hort. Berol. 457; Drège, l.c. 123, 142, 217; Alph. DC. Prodr. viii. 213; Herb. Willd. n. 8364!, not of Edwards, Bot. Reg. t. 500.
ROYENA decidua Burchell [family EBENACEAE], Trav. S. Afr. i. 317.
ROYENA cuneata Spreng. [family EBENACEAE], Syst. Veg. ii. 360; not of Poir.
ROYENA brachiata E. Meyer ex Drège [family EBENACEAE], Cat. Pl. Exsicc. Afr. Austr. 7, and Zwei Pfl. Documente, 127, 217; Alph. DC., l.c. 213.
ROYENA cuneifolia E. Meyer [family EBENACEAE], l.c., and ex Drège, Cat. Süd-Afr. Pfl. 9, and Zwei Pfl. Documente, 58, 93, 132, 138, 217; Alph. DC. l.c. 214; Krauss in Flora, 1844, 824.
ROYENA ramulosa E. Meyer ex Alph. DC. [family EBENACEAE], Prodr. viii. 212.
ROYENA sericea Bernh. ex Krauss [family EBENACEAE], in Flora, 1844, 824; Walp. Rep. vi. 457.
ROYENA oleifolia Desf. [family EBENACEAE], in Trans. Cambr. Phil. Soc. xii. 85.
ROYENA hispidula Harv. ex Hiern [family EBENACEAE], in Trans. Cambr. Phil. Soc. xii. 85.
Royena (sp.) Burchell [family EBENACEAE], l.c. i. 390, 381 (fig.).
Information
a shrub or tree, usually not exceeding 15 ft. high, sometimes a large tree; bark reddish-brown or turning black or sometimes grey, rough; branches alternate, terete, silky-pubescent with pallid hairs or glabrescent, more or less spreading, sometimes with a trailing or twining habit; branchlets leafy, densely hairy; leaves oblanceolate, obtuse or rarely pointed at the apex, more or less wedge-shaped at the base, silky especially beneath or glabrescent, green below the hairs, rather thick and firm, subcoriaceous, alternate, opposite or subverticillate, evergreen or sometimes deciduous, narrowly revolute on the margin, entire, 1/2–2 in. long, 1/6– 3/4 in. broad; petiole pubescent or puberulous, 1/20– 1/5 in. long; flowers whitish or yellow, hermaphrodite or subdiœcious, 1/4– 2/5 in. long, pendulous; peduncles axillary, arching, 1- (or rarely 2-) flowered, bearing 2 or 3 bracts about or above the middle, longer than the flowers, pubescent, somewhat thickened at the apex, 2/5– 4/5 in. long; bracts lanceolate, alternate, deciduous, 1/12– 1/8 in. long; calyx deeply 5-lobed, rounded below, pubescent on both surfaces, 1/6 in. long in flower, more or less accrescent, 1/4– 1/2 in. long in fruit; lobes ovate or lanceolate, acute, erect and adpressed to the corolla-tube, finally spreading or reflexed; corolla campanulate-rotate, deeply 5-lobed, rather thick and fleshy, somewhat hairy outside, glabrous within; tube very short; lobes ovate-oblong, revolute and 1/4 in. long; stamens 10, equal, 1/6– 1/5 in. long; filaments very short, flat, glabrous; anthers linear-lanceolate, hairy on the back and at the apex, 1/8– 1/6 in. long; ovary ovoid-conical or subglobose, silky-pubescent, with the style about 1/6 in. long, 6–10-celled; style deeply 3–5-cleft, terete; stigmas punctiform, glabrous; fruit subglobose or ovoid, pubescent or hispidulous or rarely glabrate, 1/2–1 1/4 in. in diam., sometimes bursting with valves from the apex. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div.; by Little and Great Fish Rivers, 2000–3000 ft., Drège, Burke! Commadagga, Burchell, 3301! 3325! Bruyntjes-Hoogte, Burchell, 3080! between Vogel River and Loots Kloof, and by the Klein Fish River, MacOwan, 1646! Graaff Reinet Div.; mountains south-west of Graaff Reinet, Burchell, 2930! near Graaff Reinet, 2500 ft., Bolus, 128! Cradock Div.; near Cradock, Kuntze, Cooper, 2691! Beaufort West Div.; Nieuwveld, Drège; Beaufort West, Kuntze. Victoria West Div.; between Brak River and Uitvlugt, Drège! Aliwal North Div.; Aliwal North, Kuntze. Hopetown Div.; near Hopetown, 4500 ft., Muskett in Herb. Bolus, 128!COAST REGION Worcester Div.; near Matjesfontein (Maggisfontein by error), Rehmann, 2915! 2917! Caledon Div.; Baviaans Kloof, Burchell, 7860? Robertson Div.; Kogmans Kloof, Kuntze; Riversdale Div.; by the Zoetemelks River, Burchell, 6813! Muis Kraal, Galpin, 4319! Mossel Bay Div.; Driefontein, Drège; dry channel of an arm of the Gauritz River, Burchell, 6490! Knysna Div.; Groene Valley, Burchell, 5632! near Knysna, Bowie! Krauss, 1721! Uitenhage Div.; various localities, Burchell, 4501! Drège! Zeyher, 164! 819! 1127! Ecklon & Zeyher, 14! Bowie! Tredgold! Port Elizabeth Div.; Krakkakamma, Zeyher, 544! Bathurst Div.; near Port Alfred, Burchell, 3789! Albany Div.; various localities, Burchell, 3396! 3472! 4184! Williamson!   Bolton! Hutton! Miss Bowker! Baur! MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 759! Stockenstrom Div.; Chumie (Tyumie) Berg, Ecklon & Zeyher! Queenstown Div., Cooper, 272! Cathcart Div.; Toise River, Kuntze; Goshen, Baur, 925! King Williamstown Div.; between Buffalo and Yellowwood Rivers, Drège; East London Div.; East London, Kuntze.EASTERN REGION Tembuland; Klip Krans near Bazeia, Baur, 260! Natal; near Durban, Krauss, 423! Weenen County, Sutherland! Mawbys Boot, Sanderson, 318! Inanda, Wood! Illovo Forest, Wood, 6434! Tugela River, Wood, 3853! Umsondus River, Rehmann, 7641! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 129! 1607! 1610! 6151! Peddie! Sanderson, 140! 511! 423! 527! 717! Cooper, 1238!KALAHARI REGION Herbert Div.; by the Vaal River, at Blauwbosch Drift, Burchell, 1750! Kimberley, Marloth, 816! Bechuanaland; Maadje Mountain, Burchell, 2371! Orange River Colony; Leeuw Spruit and Vredefort, Barrett-Hamilton! Bloemfontein, Kuntze. Transvaal; various localities, Galpin, 1094! 6042! Rand, 708! Rehmann, 4090! 4091! Wilms, 921! Holub! Burke!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg! Masson! Zeyher, 3348! 3354! Alexander! Ferraira, 516.WESTERN REGION Little Namaqualand; Orange River, near Verleptpram, below 500 ft., Drège! Streeuwberg, Wyley, 103! Great Namaqualand; Tiras, Schinz.
Notes
This tree is the Royena mentioned by Burchell, Trav. S. Afr. i. 390, and represented in his engraving, p. 381, and by his n. 1750. It is said to be naturalized in the island of St. Helena, and to be called “Poison Peach” by the colonists. In parts of Cape Colony it is called “Monkey Plum,” and in the Kalahari Region it is known as “Zwartbast” (black bark); it occurs also in South tropical Africa.

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