Entry for ONCOBA Kraussiana Planch. [family FLACOURTIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 65, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
ONCOBA KraussianaPlanch. [family FLACOURTIACEAE], in Herb. Hook.
Xylotheca KraussianaHochst. [family FLACOURTIACEAE], in Pl. Krauss. No. 352.
Information
unarmed; leaves elliptic-oblong, obtuse or subacute, downy, at length glabrous, very entire; peduncles terminal or opposite the leaves; anthers pointless. A much-branched shrub (without thorns?) Young branches pubescent, older with a rough ash-coloured bark. Leaves 2 inches long, midribbed and penninerved, with netted veins, rather pale on the under side. Peduncles 2–3 inches long. Flowers solitary, erect, more than an inch broad, white. Calyx pubescent; sepals roundish and very concave. Petals twice as long, spreading, with narrow claws, cuneate at base, broadly obovate, with scattered, woolly hairs. Ovary hairy; stigma 5–6-rayed.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Port Natal, Dr. Krauss! Mr. Plant! Mr. Sanderson, Gueinzius, 96 and 100. (Herb. T.C.D., Hook.)
