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Allophylus natalensis Sond. de Winter [family SAPINDACEAE]
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 2, Part 2, page 494, (1966) Author: A. W. Exell
Names
Allophylus natalensis Sond. de Winter [family SAPINDACEAE], in Bothalia, 6: 408 (1954). TAB. 100 fig 9. Type from Natal.
Rhus erosa [family SAPINDACEAE], sensu E. Mey. in Drège, Zwei Pflanz.-Docum.: 216 (1843).
Schmidelia natalensis Sond. [family SAPINDACEAE], in Harv. & Sond., F.C. 1: 239 (1860). Type as for A. natalensis.
Allophylus erosus Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE], [in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3, 5: 313 (1896) nom. nud.] in Sitz.-Ber. Bayer. Akad. 38, 2: 225 (1909); in Engl., Pflanzenr. IV, 165, 1, 2: 544 (1932). — Bak. f. in Journ. of Bot. 57: 190 (1919). Nom. illegit. Type from S. Africa.
Information
Shrub up to 5 m. tall; branchlets greyish-white, minutely appressed-pubescent. Leaves 3-foliolate; petiole 1–3 cm. long, minutely appressed-pubescent or nearly glabrous; leaflets subequal or the terminal one a little longer, sessile or subsessile; lamina of terminal leaflet 3·5–8·5 × 1–2 (2·5) cm., narrowly elliptic, subcoriaceous, sparsely appressed-pubescent when young and soon glabrescent, minutely glandular and punctate on the under surface, apex rounded, margin rather remotely and shallowly serrulate, base cuneate; lateral nerves 5–8 pairs. Inflorescence 3–7 cm. long, usually branched, minutely appressed-pubescent to nearly glabrous. Flowers in few-flowered subsessile glomerules; pedicels up to 2·5 mm. long, glabrous. Outer sepals 2 × 2 mm., subcircular, minutely pubescent, inner 1·8 × 1·2 mm., broadly elliptic, minutely pubescent. Petals 1·5 × 1 mm., spathulate. Staminodes (no male flowers seen) with filaments 0·5 mm. long in female flowers. Ovary 2-lobed, minutely pubescent; style up to 1·5 mm. long, 2-fid. Fruit bright red, 6 mm. in diam., subglobose, sparsely pubescent when mature, 1 coccus usually developing.
Habitat
Coastal dunes (in our area).
Altitude range
100
0
inferred from habitat
Distribution
Mozambique M Inhaca I., fl. 14.vii.1957, Barbosa 7715 (LMJ; PRE; SRGH); Marracuene, fr. i.vi.1959, Barbosa & Lemos 8546 (COI; LISC; LMJ; PRE; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
S. Africa
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 2, Part 2, page 494, (1966) Author: A. W. Exell
Names
Allophylus natalensis Sond. de Winter [family SAPINDACEAE], in Bothalia, 6: 408 (1954). TAB. 100 fig 9. Type from Natal.
Rhus erosa [family SAPINDACEAE], sensu E. Mey. in Drège, Zwei Pflanz.-Docum.: 216 (1843).
Schmidelia natalensis Sond. [family SAPINDACEAE], in Harv. & Sond., F.C. 1: 239 (1860). Type as for A. natalensis.
Allophylus erosus Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE], [in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3, 5: 313 (1896) nom. nud.] in Sitz.-Ber. Bayer. Akad. 38, 2: 225 (1909); in Engl., Pflanzenr. IV, 165, 1, 2: 544 (1932). — Bak. f. in Journ. of Bot. 57: 190 (1919). Nom. illegit. Type from S. Africa.
Information
Shrub up to 5 m. tall; branchlets greyish-white, minutely appressed-pubescent. Leaves 3-foliolate; petiole 1–3 cm. long, minutely appressed-pubescent or nearly glabrous; leaflets subequal or the terminal one a little longer, sessile or subsessile; lamina of terminal leaflet 3·5–8·5 × 1–2 (2·5) cm., narrowly elliptic, subcoriaceous, sparsely appressed-pubescent when young and soon glabrescent, minutely glandular and punctate on the under surface, apex rounded, margin rather remotely and shallowly serrulate, base cuneate; lateral nerves 5–8 pairs. Inflorescence 3–7 cm. long, usually branched, minutely appressed-pubescent to nearly glabrous. Flowers in few-flowered subsessile glomerules; pedicels up to 2·5 mm. long, glabrous. Outer sepals 2 × 2 mm., subcircular, minutely pubescent, inner 1·8 × 1·2 mm., broadly elliptic, minutely pubescent. Petals 1·5 × 1 mm., spathulate. Staminodes (no male flowers seen) with filaments 0·5 mm. long in female flowers. Ovary 2-lobed, minutely pubescent; style up to 1·5 mm. long, 2-fid. Fruit bright red, 6 mm. in diam., subglobose, sparsely pubescent when mature, 1 coccus usually developing.
Habitat
Coastal dunes (in our area).
Altitude range
100
0
inferred from habitat
Distribution
Mozambique M Inhaca I., fl. 14.vii.1957, Barbosa 7715 (LMJ; PRE; SRGH); Marracuene, fr. i.vi.1959, Barbosa & Lemos 8546 (COI; LISC; LMJ; PRE; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
S. Africa
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 2, Part 2, page 494, (1966) Author: A. W. Exell
Names
Allophylus natalensis Sond. de Winter [family SAPINDACEAE], in Bothalia, 6: 408 (1954). TAB. 100 fig 9. Type from Natal.
Rhus erosa [family SAPINDACEAE], sensu E. Mey. in Drège, Zwei Pflanz.-Docum.: 216 (1843).
Schmidelia natalensis Sond. [family SAPINDACEAE], in Harv. & Sond., F.C. 1: 239 (1860). Type as for A. natalensis.
Allophylus erosus Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE], [in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3, 5: 313 (1896) nom. nud.] in Sitz.-Ber. Bayer. Akad. 38, 2: 225 (1909); in Engl., Pflanzenr. IV, 165, 1, 2: 544 (1932). — Bak. f. in Journ. of Bot. 57: 190 (1919). Nom. illegit. Type from S. Africa.
Information
Shrub up to 5 m. tall; branchlets greyish-white, minutely appressed-pubescent. Leaves 3-foliolate; petiole 1–3 cm. long, minutely appressed-pubescent or nearly glabrous; leaflets subequal or the terminal one a little longer, sessile or subsessile; lamina of terminal leaflet 3·5–8·5 × 1–2 (2·5) cm., narrowly elliptic, subcoriaceous, sparsely appressed-pubescent when young and soon glabrescent, minutely glandular and punctate on the under surface, apex rounded, margin rather remotely and shallowly serrulate, base cuneate; lateral nerves 5–8 pairs. Inflorescence 3–7 cm. long, usually branched, minutely appressed-pubescent to nearly glabrous. Flowers in few-flowered subsessile glomerules; pedicels up to 2·5 mm. long, glabrous. Outer sepals 2 × 2 mm., subcircular, minutely pubescent, inner 1·8 × 1·2 mm., broadly elliptic, minutely pubescent. Petals 1·5 × 1 mm., spathulate. Staminodes (no male flowers seen) with filaments 0·5 mm. long in female flowers. Ovary 2-lobed, minutely pubescent; style up to 1·5 mm. long, 2-fid. Fruit bright red, 6 mm. in diam., subglobose, sparsely pubescent when mature, 1 coccus usually developing.
Habitat
Coastal dunes (in our area).
Altitude range
100
0
inferred from habitat
Distribution
Mozambique M Inhaca I., fl. 14.vii.1957, Barbosa 7715 (LMJ; PRE; SRGH); Marracuene, fr. i.vi.1959, Barbosa & Lemos 8546 (COI; LISC; LMJ; PRE; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
S. Africa
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