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Turraea obtusifolia

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Identification
Turraea obtusifolia Hochst. [family MELIACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for Turraea obtusifolia [family MELIACEAE]
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
Turraea obtusifolia [family MELIACEAE]
Common names
Turraea obtusifolia var. microphylla C. DC. in Monogr. Phan. 1: 440 (1878); Burtt Davy, Fl. Transv. 2: 486 (1932); O. B. Miller in Jl S. Afr. Bot. 18: 40(1952). Type: South Africa, Port Alfred, near Barville Park, between Rietfontein and the seashore, Burchell 4106 (B, holo., pre­sumably destroyed; K!; L!; M!; P!). Turraea oblancifolia Brem. in Ann. Transv. Mus. 15: 245 (1933). Type: South Africa, between Warmbaths & Nylstroom, Bremekamp & Schweickerdt 4 (PRE, holo.!; K!).
Information
Shrub 0,6—5 m high, sometimes scram­bling. Leaves mostly in fascicles, lamina very variable, from narrowly oblanceolate and unlobed to cuneate-obovate and deeply lobed. Inflorescence: a 1—4-flowered axillary cyme. Petals pure white, narrowly spathulate, 25x3-45x5 mm. Ovary 5-locular, glabrous. Capsule 6 x 12 mm, depressed-globose, shal-lowly sulcate. Seeds 5,5 X 3,5 mm, bright red; aril small, white, fleshy, almost confined to the adaxial depression and not visible from the out­side. Chromosome number. 2n = 50 (Zim­babwe). Fig. 11: 3 & 12.
Use
3. Turraea obtusifolia Hochst. in Flora 27: 296 [962] (1844); Sond. in F.C. 1: 245 (1860); Oliv. in F.T.A. 1: 331 (1868); C. DC. in Mo­nogr. Phan. 1: 440 (1878); White & Styles in F.Z. 2: 313, fig. 61a (1963); Ross, Fl. Natal 216 (1972); Palmer & Pitman, Trees S. Afr. 2: 1063 & photo. (1973). Type: South Africa, Na­tal, Krauss 308 (G, iso.!; K, iso.!).
Range
Only known from southern Africa from Botswana and Zimbabwe to southern Mozambique and the eastern Cape. In woodland, bushland and wooded grassland, es­pecially among rocks; also in coastal thicket and inside and at the edges of various kinds of forest. In the Transvaal and Botswana, T. obtusifolia occurs mostly between 365 m and 1 200 m; further south between near sea-level and 400 m. Map (see fig. 12).

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