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Cadaba natalensis [family CAPPARACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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
Cadaba natalensis [family CAPPARACEAE]
Information
Shrub, often semi-scandent, or small tree 1-4 m high; branches fairly flexible, grey to yellowy brown with prominent white lenticels, glabrous or with short, coarse hairs. Leaves elliptic to obovate, 7-42 mm long, 5-13 mm wide, dark green, thin, drying papery, often pubescent but never farinose, alternate or crowded on short side shoots, lateral veins usually visible; especially on ventral surface; petiole 2-4 mm long, pubescent on upper surface at least. Flowers solitary in axils of leaves, corymbose or racemose in appearance on side shoots; pedicels slender, glabrous to sparsely pubeÂscent, up to 2 cm long; buds globose in outÂline. Sepals 4, free, decussate, outer sepals concave, folded laterally, equal, c. 8 X 8 mm, pale mauve or purple-flushed, glabrous to shortly pubescent, margin of inner sepals, pubescent. Petals 0. Androphore c. 2 cm long, glabrous to thinly pubescent, with basal nectary not conspicuous in open flowers, nor often persisting on young fruit, flask-shaped, with recurved neck not attached to androÂphore, mouth dentate. Stamens usually 5, 1 stamen at lower level than rest, not often persisting on mature fruit. Gynophore 5-7 mm long, thinly pubescent. Ovary cylindric, with capitate, sessile stigma. Ovules numerous, attached on two placentas. Fruit cylindric, usually 5 cm (up to 5-4 cm) long and 5 mm wide, verrucose, subtorulose, glabrous to thinly pubescent. Seeds c. 3 mm long, embedded in scarlet powdery matrix, reni-form with verrucose black to brown testa. Fig. 23 : 3.
Habitat
Bush or scrambling shrub with dark green leaves and prominent lenticels on twigs, and with flowers white to pale mauve or purple-flushed sepals. A pubescent form of this species exists but, as there are intermediates, it is not given separate taxonomic rank.
Use
2. Cadaba natalensis Sond. in Linnaea 23 : 8 (1850); F.C. 1 : 59 (1894); Gilg & Ben. in Bot. Jahrb. 53 : 228 (1915); Burtt Davy, Fl. Transv. 1 : 123 (1926); Wild in F.Z. 1, 1 : 210 (1960). Type : Port Natal, Guelnzius 87 (S, hole; PRE, photo.).
Range
Found in dry woodlands or bush of die lowveld in the Cape, Natal, Transvaal and Swaziland. Also occurs in Mozambique.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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
Cadaba natalensis [family CAPPARACEAE]
Information
Shrub, often semi-scandent, or small tree 1-4 m high; branches fairly flexible, grey to yellowy brown with prominent white lenticels, glabrous or with short, coarse hairs. Leaves elliptic to obovate, 7-42 mm long, 5-13 mm wide, dark green, thin, drying papery, often pubescent but never farinose, alternate or crowded on short side shoots, lateral veins usually visible; especially on ventral surface; petiole 2-4 mm long, pubescent on upper surface at least. Flowers solitary in axils of leaves, corymbose or racemose in appearance on side shoots; pedicels slender, glabrous to sparsely pubeÂscent, up to 2 cm long; buds globose in outÂline. Sepals 4, free, decussate, outer sepals concave, folded laterally, equal, c. 8 X 8 mm, pale mauve or purple-flushed, glabrous to shortly pubescent, margin of inner sepals, pubescent. Petals 0. Androphore c. 2 cm long, glabrous to thinly pubescent, with basal nectary not conspicuous in open flowers, nor often persisting on young fruit, flask-shaped, with recurved neck not attached to androÂphore, mouth dentate. Stamens usually 5, 1 stamen at lower level than rest, not often persisting on mature fruit. Gynophore 5-7 mm long, thinly pubescent. Ovary cylindric, with capitate, sessile stigma. Ovules numerous, attached on two placentas. Fruit cylindric, usually 5 cm (up to 5-4 cm) long and 5 mm wide, verrucose, subtorulose, glabrous to thinly pubescent. Seeds c. 3 mm long, embedded in scarlet powdery matrix, reni-form with verrucose black to brown testa. Fig. 23 : 3.
Habitat
Bush or scrambling shrub with dark green leaves and prominent lenticels on twigs, and with flowers white to pale mauve or purple-flushed sepals. A pubescent form of this species exists but, as there are intermediates, it is not given separate taxonomic rank.
Use
2. Cadaba natalensis Sond. in Linnaea 23 : 8 (1850); F.C. 1 : 59 (1894); Gilg & Ben. in Bot. Jahrb. 53 : 228 (1915); Burtt Davy, Fl. Transv. 1 : 123 (1926); Wild in F.Z. 1, 1 : 210 (1960). Type : Port Natal, Guelnzius 87 (S, hole; PRE, photo.).
Range
Found in dry woodlands or bush of die lowveld in the Cape, Natal, Transvaal and Swaziland. Also occurs in Mozambique.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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
Cadaba natalensis [family CAPPARACEAE]
Information
Shrub, often semi-scandent, or small tree 1-4 m high; branches fairly flexible, grey to yellowy brown with prominent white lenticels, glabrous or with short, coarse hairs. Leaves elliptic to obovate, 7-42 mm long, 5-13 mm wide, dark green, thin, drying papery, often pubescent but never farinose, alternate or crowded on short side shoots, lateral veins usually visible; especially on ventral surface; petiole 2-4 mm long, pubescent on upper surface at least. Flowers solitary in axils of leaves, corymbose or racemose in appearance on side shoots; pedicels slender, glabrous to sparsely pubeÂscent, up to 2 cm long; buds globose in outÂline. Sepals 4, free, decussate, outer sepals concave, folded laterally, equal, c. 8 X 8 mm, pale mauve or purple-flushed, glabrous to shortly pubescent, margin of inner sepals, pubescent. Petals 0. Androphore c. 2 cm long, glabrous to thinly pubescent, with basal nectary not conspicuous in open flowers, nor often persisting on young fruit, flask-shaped, with recurved neck not attached to androÂphore, mouth dentate. Stamens usually 5, 1 stamen at lower level than rest, not often persisting on mature fruit. Gynophore 5-7 mm long, thinly pubescent. Ovary cylindric, with capitate, sessile stigma. Ovules numerous, attached on two placentas. Fruit cylindric, usually 5 cm (up to 5-4 cm) long and 5 mm wide, verrucose, subtorulose, glabrous to thinly pubescent. Seeds c. 3 mm long, embedded in scarlet powdery matrix, reni-form with verrucose black to brown testa. Fig. 23 : 3.
Habitat
Bush or scrambling shrub with dark green leaves and prominent lenticels on twigs, and with flowers white to pale mauve or purple-flushed sepals. A pubescent form of this species exists but, as there are intermediates, it is not given separate taxonomic rank.
Use
2. Cadaba natalensis Sond. in Linnaea 23 : 8 (1850); F.C. 1 : 59 (1894); Gilg & Ben. in Bot. Jahrb. 53 : 228 (1915); Burtt Davy, Fl. Transv. 1 : 123 (1926); Wild in F.Z. 1, 1 : 210 (1960). Type : Port Natal, Guelnzius 87 (S, hole; PRE, photo.).
Range
Found in dry woodlands or bush of die lowveld in the Cape, Natal, Transvaal and Swaziland. Also occurs in Mozambique.
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