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Sponia orientalis

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Identification
Sponia orientalis (L.) Decne. [family ULMACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Trema orientalis (L.) Blume [family ULMACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Sponia orientalis
  • Trema orientalis
  • Trema guineense

Flora

Entry for TREMA bracteolata Blume [family ULMACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, Part 2, page 516, (1925) Author: (By N. E. BROWN.)
Names
TREMA bracteolata Blume [family ULMACEAE], Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. ii. 58;—Wood, Natal Pl. iv. t. 356; Burtt-Davy in Transv. Agric. Journ. v. 433; Sim, For. Fl. Cape Col. 305, t. 158, fig. 2 (very inaccurate).
TREMA glomerata Blume [family ULMACEAE], Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. ii. 58.
TREMA guineensis Ficalho [family ULMACEAE], Pl. Uteis. 261, and Priemer in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 426.
Sponia glomerata Hochst. [family ULMACEAE], in Flora, 1845, 87, and in Krauss, Fl. Cap.-und-Natal. 150–151, and Planch. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 3me sér. x. 321; Rendle in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. ii. 11.
Sponia bracteolata Hochst. [family ULMACEAE], in Flora, 1845, 87, and in Krauss, Fl. Cap.-und-Natal. 150–151, and Planch. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 3me sér. x. 321; Rendle in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. ii. 11.
Sponia guineensis Planch. [family ULMACEAE], in DC. Prodr. xvii. 197.
Sponia orientalis E. Meyer ex Planch. var. β angustifolia [family ULMACEAE], l.c., under S. guineensis, Planch.
Celtis guineensis Schumach. & Thonn. [family ULMACEAE], Beskr. Guin. Pl. 160.
Celtis orientalis E. Meyer var. β [family ULMACEAE], in Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 171.
Information
a shrub or tree 8–20 ft. high; young branches adpressed-puberulous; leaves alternate, stipulate; petiole 2–6 lin. long, puberulous; blade 1–5 in. long, 1/3–2 in. broad, varying from narrowly lanceolate to elongated ovate or oblong-ovate, acuminate, rounded to cordate at the base, often more or less oblique, three-nerved at the base, finely toothed, glabrous or thinly sprinkled with hairs above, nearly glabrous to finely adpressed-puberulous beneath; stipules 1–3 1/2 lin. long, lanceolate-subulate, silky-pubescent, deciduous; flowers in small dense axillary cymes or globose clusters 1/4– 3/4 in. in diam., which vary from shorter than to about twice as long as the petioles, unisexual or occasionally with both sexes on the same cyme, pubescent or puberulous; bracts 1/2–1 1/4 lin. long, ovate, acute or tapering to a long point, pubescent; pedicels 1/4–1 lin. long, jointed close under the flowers; flowers 5-partite, green; segments of the male flower 1 lin. long, deeply boat-shaped, obtuse, those of the female 2/3 lin. long, two of them concave, the other three flatter and broader, elliptic, very obtuse, in both sexes with membranous fringed margins to the inner three, the others ciliate, glabrous; stamens 5, with stout filaments, shortly tapering at the apex, shorter than the perianth-segments, glabrous, absent from the female flowers; ovary compressed, elliptic, glabrous, 1-celled, with 1 pendulous ovule, columnar and abortive in the male flowers, surrounded at the base in both sexes by a ring of hairs; styles 2, ascending or diverging, 1/2 lin. long, hairy; fruit fleshy, ellipsoid or subglobose, 1 1/2–2 lin. in diam., black when ripe, bearing the persistent remains of the styles. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa and Arabia.
Distribution
COAST REGION Komgha Div.; along the Kei River near Komgha, Flanagan, 1347!EASTERN REGION Transkei; Kentani, Miss Pegler, 867! Natal; Table Mountain, Krauss, 41! in woods, Krauss, 354! between Umzimkulu River and Umcomaas River, Drège! Maritzburg, Rehmann, 7512! Inanda, Wood, 625! near Durban, Schlechter, 2795! Dumisa, Rudatis, 591! 1189! and without precise locality, Peddie! Gueinzius! Gerrard, 14! Cooper, 1254!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; near Barberton, Galpin, 848! Thorncroft, 3934!

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