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Chrysophyllum viridifolium [family SAPOTACEAE]
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
Chrysophyllum viridifolium [family SAPOTACEAE]
Information
A large tree 10-30 m high, with a girth at 2 m from the ground of 1 -5 m and over; trunk usually unbranched for 5 m or more; innovations, petioles, pedicels and calyx-lobes finely rusty velvety-tomentose. Leaves scattered on the branches, thinly coriaceous, exstipulate, 4-12 cm long and 2-4-5 cm wide, oblong or (ob-) ovate-oblong, ovate or elliptic, obtuse or bluntly acuminate, more or less rounded at the base, dark glossy green above, lighter and dull beneath, glabrous when mature, except near the midrib and at the very base near the petiole beneath, with reflexed edge; midrib impressed above, prominent beneath; lateral nerves about 11 per cm, patent but not quite perpendicular to the midrib, often forked, almost straight, parallel; petioles 5-12 mm long. Flowers 2-2 • 5 mm long, nearly globose, in up to 20-flowered clusters in the axils of the lower leaves and on raised warts on the older twigs; bracts very minute or wanting; pedicels almost capillary, 4-5 mm long. Sepals erect, concave, ciliate. Corolla scarcely longer than the calyx; tube urceolate; lobes erect, ovate to oblong-rotundate, very obtuse or rounded, ciliate at least at the lateral margins. Ovary densely rusty-villous, often somewhat lobed; style conical-cylindric from a broad base, longer than the ovary.
Habitat
The fruits are edible and according to Gerstner of good flavour.
Use
Chrysophyllum viridifolium Wood & Franks in Wood, Natal PI. 6: 569 (1912); Gerstner in J. S. Afr. Bot. 12: 48, fig. 3 (1946); Meeuse in Bothalia 7: 328 (1960). Type: Durban, Stella Bush, Franks in Herb. Wood 11636 (NH, holo!.; BOL, PRE).
Range
In evergreen lowland forests in Natal, Swaziland and the southern part of Portuguese East Africa.
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
Chrysophyllum viridifolium [family SAPOTACEAE]
Information
A large tree 10-30 m high, with a girth at 2 m from the ground of 1 -5 m and over; trunk usually unbranched for 5 m or more; innovations, petioles, pedicels and calyx-lobes finely rusty velvety-tomentose. Leaves scattered on the branches, thinly coriaceous, exstipulate, 4-12 cm long and 2-4-5 cm wide, oblong or (ob-) ovate-oblong, ovate or elliptic, obtuse or bluntly acuminate, more or less rounded at the base, dark glossy green above, lighter and dull beneath, glabrous when mature, except near the midrib and at the very base near the petiole beneath, with reflexed edge; midrib impressed above, prominent beneath; lateral nerves about 11 per cm, patent but not quite perpendicular to the midrib, often forked, almost straight, parallel; petioles 5-12 mm long. Flowers 2-2 • 5 mm long, nearly globose, in up to 20-flowered clusters in the axils of the lower leaves and on raised warts on the older twigs; bracts very minute or wanting; pedicels almost capillary, 4-5 mm long. Sepals erect, concave, ciliate. Corolla scarcely longer than the calyx; tube urceolate; lobes erect, ovate to oblong-rotundate, very obtuse or rounded, ciliate at least at the lateral margins. Ovary densely rusty-villous, often somewhat lobed; style conical-cylindric from a broad base, longer than the ovary.
Habitat
The fruits are edible and according to Gerstner of good flavour.
Use
Chrysophyllum viridifolium Wood & Franks in Wood, Natal PI. 6: 569 (1912); Gerstner in J. S. Afr. Bot. 12: 48, fig. 3 (1946); Meeuse in Bothalia 7: 328 (1960). Type: Durban, Stella Bush, Franks in Herb. Wood 11636 (NH, holo!.; BOL, PRE).
Range
In evergreen lowland forests in Natal, Swaziland and the southern part of Portuguese East Africa.
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
Chrysophyllum viridifolium [family SAPOTACEAE]
Information
A large tree 10-30 m high, with a girth at 2 m from the ground of 1 -5 m and over; trunk usually unbranched for 5 m or more; innovations, petioles, pedicels and calyx-lobes finely rusty velvety-tomentose. Leaves scattered on the branches, thinly coriaceous, exstipulate, 4-12 cm long and 2-4-5 cm wide, oblong or (ob-) ovate-oblong, ovate or elliptic, obtuse or bluntly acuminate, more or less rounded at the base, dark glossy green above, lighter and dull beneath, glabrous when mature, except near the midrib and at the very base near the petiole beneath, with reflexed edge; midrib impressed above, prominent beneath; lateral nerves about 11 per cm, patent but not quite perpendicular to the midrib, often forked, almost straight, parallel; petioles 5-12 mm long. Flowers 2-2 • 5 mm long, nearly globose, in up to 20-flowered clusters in the axils of the lower leaves and on raised warts on the older twigs; bracts very minute or wanting; pedicels almost capillary, 4-5 mm long. Sepals erect, concave, ciliate. Corolla scarcely longer than the calyx; tube urceolate; lobes erect, ovate to oblong-rotundate, very obtuse or rounded, ciliate at least at the lateral margins. Ovary densely rusty-villous, often somewhat lobed; style conical-cylindric from a broad base, longer than the ovary.
Habitat
The fruits are edible and according to Gerstner of good flavour.
Use
Chrysophyllum viridifolium Wood & Franks in Wood, Natal PI. 6: 569 (1912); Gerstner in J. S. Afr. Bot. 12: 48, fig. 3 (1946); Meeuse in Bothalia 7: 328 (1960). Type: Durban, Stella Bush, Franks in Herb. Wood 11636 (NH, holo!.; BOL, PRE).
Range
In evergreen lowland forests in Natal, Swaziland and the southern part of Portuguese East Africa.
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