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MÆSA rufescens A.DC. [family ]

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 431, (1909) Author: By W. H. HARVEY, with additions by C. H. WRIGHT.
Names
MÆSA rufescens A.DC. [family ], in DC. Prodr. viii. 81;—Mez in Engl. Pflanzenr. Myrsinaceæ, 25. MÆSA palustris Hochst. [family ], in Flora, 1844, 825. Bæobotrys rufescens E. Meyer ex A. DC. [family ], l.c. Choristylis rhamnoides Harv. [family ESCALLONIACEAE], in Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. 308 partly.
Information
branches entirely or only at the apex rusty-tomentose; leaves elliptic, acute or shortly acuminate, coarsely serrate rarely entire, up to 3 in. long and 1 1/2 in. wide, glabrous or pubescent beneath; petiole up to 1 in. long; panicle many-flowered, shorter than the leaves, rhachis and branches covered with patent hairs; pedicels less than a line long; sepals 1/2 lin. long, triangular, acute, ciliate; corolla about 1 lin. long, ciliate; stamens slightly exserted; style about as long as the ovary; stigma obtuse. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; near Durban, Gueinzius! Krauss, 152! Nelson, 9! Inanda, Wood, 1117! Maritzburg, 3500 ft., Schlechter, 6754! between Pietermaritzburg and Greytown, Wilms, 1918! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 417! Cooper, 1209! Wilms, 1803!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Hoatbosch, Rehmann, 6012!

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 431, (1909) Author: By W. H. HARVEY, with additions by C. H. WRIGHT.
Names
MÆSA rufescens A.DC. [family ], in DC. Prodr. viii. 81;—Mez in Engl. Pflanzenr. Myrsinaceæ, 25. MÆSA palustris Hochst. [family ], in Flora, 1844, 825. Bæobotrys rufescens E. Meyer ex A. DC. [family ], l.c. Choristylis rhamnoides Harv. [family ESCALLONIACEAE], in Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. 308 partly.
Information
branches entirely or only at the apex rusty-tomentose; leaves elliptic, acute or shortly acuminate, coarsely serrate rarely entire, up to 3 in. long and 1 1/2 in. wide, glabrous or pubescent beneath; petiole up to 1 in. long; panicle many-flowered, shorter than the leaves, rhachis and branches covered with patent hairs; pedicels less than a line long; sepals 1/2 lin. long, triangular, acute, ciliate; corolla about 1 lin. long, ciliate; stamens slightly exserted; style about as long as the ovary; stigma obtuse. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; near Durban, Gueinzius! Krauss, 152! Nelson, 9! Inanda, Wood, 1117! Maritzburg, 3500 ft., Schlechter, 6754! between Pietermaritzburg and Greytown, Wilms, 1918! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 417! Cooper, 1209! Wilms, 1803!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Hoatbosch, Rehmann, 6012!
MÆSA rufescens A.DC. [family ]
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