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Embelia ruminata [family MYRSINACEAE]
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
Embelia ruminata [family MYRSINACEAE]
Common names
Myrsine ruminataE. Mey. in Drege, Zwei Doc. 204 (1844), nom. nud.; A.DC. in DC, Prodr. 8: 104 (1844). Embelia kraussii Harv., Thes. Cap. 2: 17, t. 127 (1863); Harv. ex Wright in F.C. 4, 1: 433 (1909). Type: Natal, Krauss 407. Celastrus oleoides sensu Hochst. in Flora 304 (1844).
Information
A scandent shrub or liana in bush or forest; branchlets often reflexed at first, minutely and somewhat glandular pubescent, becoming glabrous. Leaves petiolate, obovate to obovate-oblong, 1-5 cm long, 1-2-5 cm broad, obtuse, sometimes acute, entire, gland-dotted but glands not always evident, when young drying thin and memÂbranous, fine lateral venation; margin often recurved when dry; petiole short, sometimes appearing slightly winged, canaliculate, occasionally minutely pubescent with semi-glandular hairs, comparatively large leaf scars. Inflorescence in short, few-flowered, axillary racemes up to 2 • 5 cm long from axils of leaf scars; bracts concave, oval, shorter than pedicels. Flowers often unisexual. Calyx small, cup-shaped, 4-5 lobed or toothed. Petals 4-5, free, oblong, imbricate in bud, minutely and densely papillose within. Stamens 4-5, opposite and adnate to petals below middle; filaments shorter than petals, flattish subulate; anthers medifixed with introrse dehiscence. Ovary on a small 5-crenate disc, 1-celled, with 1 basal ovule; style filiform with discoid or bifid stigma; capsule the size of a pea.—Fig. 1:1.
Habitat
The branchlets are often reflexed, thus assisting the plant in its scandent habit.
Use
Embelia ruminata (E. Mey. ex A.DC.) Mez in Pflanzenr. 4, 236: 331 (1902). Type: Natal, Drege.
Range
In the coastal and slightly inland forests of the eastern Cape, extending to the forests of Zululand.
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
Embelia ruminata [family MYRSINACEAE]
Common names
Myrsine ruminataE. Mey. in Drege, Zwei Doc. 204 (1844), nom. nud.; A.DC. in DC, Prodr. 8: 104 (1844). Embelia kraussii Harv., Thes. Cap. 2: 17, t. 127 (1863); Harv. ex Wright in F.C. 4, 1: 433 (1909). Type: Natal, Krauss 407. Celastrus oleoides sensu Hochst. in Flora 304 (1844).
Information
A scandent shrub or liana in bush or forest; branchlets often reflexed at first, minutely and somewhat glandular pubescent, becoming glabrous. Leaves petiolate, obovate to obovate-oblong, 1-5 cm long, 1-2-5 cm broad, obtuse, sometimes acute, entire, gland-dotted but glands not always evident, when young drying thin and memÂbranous, fine lateral venation; margin often recurved when dry; petiole short, sometimes appearing slightly winged, canaliculate, occasionally minutely pubescent with semi-glandular hairs, comparatively large leaf scars. Inflorescence in short, few-flowered, axillary racemes up to 2 • 5 cm long from axils of leaf scars; bracts concave, oval, shorter than pedicels. Flowers often unisexual. Calyx small, cup-shaped, 4-5 lobed or toothed. Petals 4-5, free, oblong, imbricate in bud, minutely and densely papillose within. Stamens 4-5, opposite and adnate to petals below middle; filaments shorter than petals, flattish subulate; anthers medifixed with introrse dehiscence. Ovary on a small 5-crenate disc, 1-celled, with 1 basal ovule; style filiform with discoid or bifid stigma; capsule the size of a pea.—Fig. 1:1.
Habitat
The branchlets are often reflexed, thus assisting the plant in its scandent habit.
Use
Embelia ruminata (E. Mey. ex A.DC.) Mez in Pflanzenr. 4, 236: 331 (1902). Type: Natal, Drege.
Range
In the coastal and slightly inland forests of the eastern Cape, extending to the forests of Zululand.
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