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Gerrardina foliosa

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Filed as Gerrardina foliosa Oliv. [family FLACOURTIACEAE]
Gerrardina foliosa Oliv. [family FLACOURTIACEAE]
Isotype of Noltea natalensis Schltr. [family RHAMNACEAE]
Gerrardina foliosa Oliv. [family FLACOURTIACEAE]
Type of Gerrardina foliosa Oliv. [family FLACOURTIACEAE]
Isotype of Gerrardina foliosa Oliv. [family FLACOURTIACEAE]
Filed as Noltea natalensis Schltr. [family RHAMNACEAE]
Filed as Noltea natalensis Schltr. [family RHAMNACEAE]
Gerrardina foliosa Oliv. [family FLACOURTIACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Gerrardina foliosa Oliv. [family FLACOURTIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Noltea natalensis
  • Rhamkella unrecorded
  • Gerrardina foliosa

Flora

Entry for Gerrardina foliosa [family FLACOURTIACEAE]
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
Gerrardina foliosa [family FLACOURTIACEAE]
Information
Shrub or tree up to 10 m high. Branches greyish-brown to brown, pubescent at ends. Leaf-blade elliptic, 2,6-6,5 cm long, 1-2,5 cm wide, apex acute to obtuse, base narrowly to broadly cuneate, margin callose-serrulate to serrate, sometimes only in upper 2h, thickened, revolute, midrib prominent below, lateral nerves 9-13, subprominent below, tertiary nerves reticulate, immersed, glabrescent, coriaceous, pale green below; petiole 2-7 mm long. Inflorescence an axillary cyme; peduncles erect, 1-4 cm long, slender. Flowers 2-6 per cyme; pedicels 1-3 mm long. Calyx-lobes yel- lowish, unequal, margins entire or glandular-denticulate, faintly keeled; 2 outer rounded, c. 1,5 mm diam.; 3 inner elliptic to obovate-spathulate, 2-3 mm long, 2 mm wide. Petals elliptic, 2 mm long, 1,5 mm wide, deciduous. Stamens 1 mm long with filaments reddish distally; anthers c. 0,7 mm long. Disc shallowly 5-lobed, reddish-brown. Ovary depressed ovoid, 8-ridged radially above, 1-locular; ov
Habitat
A distinct species readily distinguishable from its tropical African congener, G. eylesiana Milne-Redh., by its leaves which are elliptic-acute instead of ovate-acuminate, coriaceous instead of chartaceous and the peduncles which are considerably stouter. There are two specimens of Gerrard 1513 in Herb. Kew. The one with annotations and drawings and marked "Type specimen" is clearly the holotype.
Use
Gerrardina foliosa Oliv. in Hook. Icon. PI. 11: 60,1.1075 (1870). Gilg in Bot. Jahrb. 40: 488 (1908); Engl., Pflanzenw. Afr. 3,2: 578, t.256a-c (1921); Gilg in Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 21: 425, t. 191a-c (1925); Burtt Davy, Fl. Transv. 1: 217 (1926); Henkel, Woody PI. Natal 94 (1934). Type: Natal, without precise locality, Gerrard 1513 (K, holo.!; BM!; PRE, photo.).
Range
Occurs on rocky hillsides, krantzes and in forest in the eastern Cape, Natal, Swaziland and the eastern Transvaal.

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