Isotype of Wrightia natalensisStapf [family APOCYNACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Leeuwenberg, A.J.M.,
Related name
Wrightia natalensis
Flora
Entry for WRIGHTIA natalensis Stapf [family APOCYNACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 490, (1909) Author: By OTTOSTAPF.
Names
WRIGHTIA natalensisStapf [family APOCYNACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1907, 51
Information
a shrub; branches rusty-pubescent when quite young, soon glabrous and ultimately covered with a fine grey bark, scantily lenticellate; leaves lanceolate, subacute, cuneate at the base, up to 3 in. long to 9 lin. broad (not quite mature), rusty-pubescent on the back towards the base, otherwise quite glabrous; secondary nerves about 9 on each side; petiole slender, 2–4 lin. long; panicle short, subcorymbose, not over 1 in. across, rusty-pubescent; bracts linear-oblong to linear, 1 1/2–2 lin. long; pedicels up to 4 lin. long; calyx pubescent at the base, otherwise almost glabrous, 2 1/2–3 lin. long; sepals oblong, obtuse, margins membranous, each with 1 fleshy scale within; corolla yellow, densely and minutely papillose without; tube 2 lin. long; lobes oblong, subobtuse, 4 lin. long with 5 epipetalous emarginate scales which are united for half their length into a short corona and bear each 2 filiform appendages shorter than the scales; anthers 2 lin. long, finely acuminate. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; Umzinyati Falls, 800 ft., Haygarth in Herb. Wood, 7861!
Notes
I have placed this plant in Wrightia rather than in Pleioceras on account of the general appearance, which is more that of a Wrightia, but it is quite possible that the fruit, when known, will prove it to be a Pleioceras.
