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ANDROSTACHYS Johnsonii Prain [family EUPHORBIACEAE]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, Part 2, page 216, (1925) Author: (By N. E. BROWN, J. HUTCHINSON and D. PRAIN.)
Names
ANDROSTACHYS Johnsonii Prain [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1908, 439;—Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1909, 201, with figs., and 1912, 307–8; Hutchinson in Dyer,  Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. i. 741, 1049.
Weihea(?) subpeltata Sim [family ], For. Fl. Port. E. Afr. 66, t. lxi. A.
Information
a tall hard-wooded tree, providing valuable timber, branchlets angular and articulated; leaves opposite, decussate, ovate, obtuse, rounded or subcordate at the base, 1 1/4–2 in. long, 1–1 1/2 in. broad, entire, rigidly coriaceous, glabrous above, more or less densely woolly-hairy below; stipular sheath 3/4 in. long, silky-pubescent outside; petioles 1/4– 1/3 in. long, silky-hairy; flowers yellow; peduncles 1/4– 1/3 in. long; male flowers: sepals petaloid, lanceolate, with retuse or 2-lobed tips, long-pilose outside; staminal axis 1/2–1 in. long; female flowers: calyx-segments 1/4 in. long, silky; capsule depressed, 1/2 in. long; seeds 1/3 in. long, 1/4 in. broad; testa brown and shining. null
Range
Occurs also in Tropical South East Africa.
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Portuguese East Africa; Inhambane, O'Neill! Lebombo Mountains, Sim! Swaziland: Ubombo, Warner, 7009!
ANDROSTACHYS Johnsonii Prain [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
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