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ADENOCLINE Mercurialis Turcz. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

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
ADENOCLINE Mercurialis Turcz. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. xvi. 60;—Turcz. in Flora, 1844, 121, and in Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. xxv. ii. 179. ADENOCLINE pauciflora Turcz. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. xvi. 60, as to Drège, 3441 female, in Flora, 1844, 121, and in Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. xxv. ii. 179; Baill. Étud. Gén. Euphorb. 457, partly. ADENOCLINE acuta Baill. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Étud. Gén. Euphorb. 457; Müll. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1141; Pax in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. v. 49, fig. 30 A-D; Prain in Ann. Bot. xxvii. 404. Mercurialis caffra Krauss [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Flora, 1845, 84; Baill. Adansonia, iii. 160. Mercurialis caffra Meisn. var. α brevipes [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 558. Mercurialis caffra Meisn. var. β longipes [family EUPHORBIACEAE], l.c.; Krauss, l.c. Mercurialis dregeana Meisn. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], l.c. 559; Buching. ex Krauss, l.c. Mercurialis subcordata Buching. ex Krauss [family EUPHORBIACEAE], l.c. Mercurialis pauciflora Baill. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Adansonia, iii. 159,partly. Diplostylis caffra Sond. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Linnæa, xxiii. 115. Acalypha acuta Thunb. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 546; Spreng. ex Steud. Nomencl. ed. 2, i. 9. Euphorbiacea 3441 Drège [family ], in Zwei Pfl. Documente, 45, mainly.
Information
a diœcious scandent herb; stems 2–5 ft. long, sparingly branched, herbaceous, distinctly striate, jointed; leaves opposite, long-petioled, membranous, ovate, acute or acuminate, base cuneate or truncate or cordate, margin crenate-serrate, 1–3 in. long, 3/4–2 in. wide, glabrous on both surfaces with a few filiform glands at apex of petiole; petiole 1–2 in. long, glabrous; stipules minute, lacerate; flowers in terminal simple or branched racemes; males several in the axils of reduced leaves; females solitary, leaf-opposed, their pedicels abruptly deflexed; calyx-segments in both sexes usually 5; stamens 10–12; ovary glabrous; capsule 1 1/2 lin. long, 3-dymous, smooth; seeds ovoid-globose, brown. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div.; Somerset East, Scott Elliot, 643!COAST REGION Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentots Holland, Zeyher, 3842, partly! Caledon Div.; Oaks (Farm?), Prior! Swellendam Div.; Voormans Bosch, Zeyher, 3842, partly! George Div.; forest near George, Prior! Outeniqua mountains, Rehmann, 259! Woodville, Galpin, 4575! Knysna Div.; near Gouwkamma River, Krauss, 1192! Ruigte Valley, Drège, 2301 a! Groene Valley, Burchell, 5625! Humansdorp Div.; near the Kromme River, Drège, 2301 b! Uitenhage Div.; near Van Stadens River, Drège, 2301 c! Port Elizabeth Div.; Baakens River, Burchell, 4339! Mrs. Paterson, 838! Cape Recief, Ecklon, 611! Ecklon & Zeyher, 37! Krakkakamma Forests, Zeyher, 552! Ecklon, 828! Alexandria Div.; Olifants Hoek, Ecklon & Zeyher, 36! Bathurst Div.; mouth of the Great Fish River, Burchell, 3735! between Sunday River and Fish River, Thunberg! near Port Alfred, Schönland, 788! 1544! Schlechter, 2732! Albany Div.; near Grahamstown, Bolton! Bolus, 2681! Penther 914! Howisons Poort, Mrs. Hutton! MacOwan, 318! Trapps Valley, Miss Anstey, 9! Atherstone, Rogers, 3301! and without precise locality, Bowker! Williamson! MacOwan, 222! Fort Beaufort Div.; near Fort Beaufort, Ecklon & Zeyher, 38! Stockenstrom Div.; Kat Berg, Drège, 3441, mainly! Shaw! near Philipton, 2000–3000 ft., Ecklon & Zeyher! East London Div.; East London, Rattray, 128! 158!EASTERN REGION Transkei; Kentani, 1500 ft., Herb. Umtata Convent, 495! Tembuland; Bazeia, 2500 ft., Baur, 128! Perie Forest, Schönland, 851! Pondoland; woods near Fort Donald, 3500 ft., Tyson, 1782! and without precise locality, Bachmann, 803! Griqualand East; near the River Chivenka, 4300 ft., Bolus, 10285! Insizwa Mountains; Krook, 906! Natal; Notote, Gerrard, 32! Ingoma, Gerrard, 1175! woods near Byrne, 3000 ft., Wood, 1816! Zuurberg Bush, Wood, 1987! near Van Reenen, 5200 ft., Schlechter, 6958! Umlaas River, Krauss, 156! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 545! Cooper, 3151!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Rimers Creek, near Barberton, Thorncroft, 250! 5592! Highland Creek, 3000 ft., Galpin, 841! Houtbosch, Rehmann, 5963! Shilovane, Junod, 863!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg! Masson!
ADENOCLINE Mercurialis Turcz. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
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