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Rhus pentheri Zahlbr. [family ANACARDIACEAE]
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 550, (1966) Author: Rosette Fernandes and A. Fernandes
Names
Rhus pentheri Zahlbr. [family ANACARDIACEAE], in Ann. Hofmus. Wien, 15: 52 (1900). — Schonl. in Bothalia, 2, 1: 48, fig. p. 48 (1930). — Burtt Davy, F.P.F.T. 2: 503 (1932). Type from Natal.
Information
Shrub up to 3 m. tall; branches greyish to brownish, cylindric, glabrous or puberulous; branchlets sometimes densely cinereous- or whitish-villous and somewhat spinescent. Petiole 0·5–1·5 cm. long, subterete, canaliculate above, slender, sparsely hairy. Leaflets usually discolorous (dark green above, paler below), membranous, at first ± sparsely and subappressed-pubescent and scrofulous on both surfaces, later glabrescent or glabrous, margin entire or with 3 blunt teeth at the apex; midrib prominent on both surfaces, lateral nerves not or very slightly raised on both surfaces, tertiary nerves and reticulation not visible; median leaflet 1·8–3·3 × 0·4–1·4 cm., elongate-cuneate, the lateral ones c. half as long as the median one, obovate and not so cuneate at the base. Panicles terminal and axillary, usually shorter than the leaves, pubescent. Calyx-segments c. 0·5 mm. long, triangular, obtuse, pubescent. Petals 0·75–1 mm. long, ovate, obtuse. Drupe cinnamon-brown to dark-brown, shining, c. 3–3·5 mm. in diam., compressed, subcircular in outline.
Habitat
On stony ground near seasonally-flowing streams.
Distribution
Mozambique M Maputo, R. Changalane, male fl. 23.iii.1947, Hornby 2659 (SRGH); Namaacha, Goba, st. 8.i.1947, Pedro & Pedrógão 407 (LMJ).
Distribution (external)
Cape Prov
Orange Free State
Natal
Swaziland
Transvaal
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 550, (1966) Author: Rosette Fernandes and A. Fernandes
Names
Rhus pentheri Zahlbr. [family ANACARDIACEAE], in Ann. Hofmus. Wien, 15: 52 (1900). — Schonl. in Bothalia, 2, 1: 48, fig. p. 48 (1930). — Burtt Davy, F.P.F.T. 2: 503 (1932). Type from Natal.
Information
Shrub up to 3 m. tall; branches greyish to brownish, cylindric, glabrous or puberulous; branchlets sometimes densely cinereous- or whitish-villous and somewhat spinescent. Petiole 0·5–1·5 cm. long, subterete, canaliculate above, slender, sparsely hairy. Leaflets usually discolorous (dark green above, paler below), membranous, at first ± sparsely and subappressed-pubescent and scrofulous on both surfaces, later glabrescent or glabrous, margin entire or with 3 blunt teeth at the apex; midrib prominent on both surfaces, lateral nerves not or very slightly raised on both surfaces, tertiary nerves and reticulation not visible; median leaflet 1·8–3·3 × 0·4–1·4 cm., elongate-cuneate, the lateral ones c. half as long as the median one, obovate and not so cuneate at the base. Panicles terminal and axillary, usually shorter than the leaves, pubescent. Calyx-segments c. 0·5 mm. long, triangular, obtuse, pubescent. Petals 0·75–1 mm. long, ovate, obtuse. Drupe cinnamon-brown to dark-brown, shining, c. 3–3·5 mm. in diam., compressed, subcircular in outline.
Habitat
On stony ground near seasonally-flowing streams.
Distribution
Mozambique M Maputo, R. Changalane, male fl. 23.iii.1947, Hornby 2659 (SRGH); Namaacha, Goba, st. 8.i.1947, Pedro & Pedrógão 407 (LMJ).
Distribution (external)
Cape Prov
Orange Free State
Natal
Swaziland
Transvaal
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 550, (1966) Author: Rosette Fernandes and A. Fernandes
Names
Rhus pentheri Zahlbr. [family ANACARDIACEAE], in Ann. Hofmus. Wien, 15: 52 (1900). — Schonl. in Bothalia, 2, 1: 48, fig. p. 48 (1930). — Burtt Davy, F.P.F.T. 2: 503 (1932). Type from Natal.
Information
Shrub up to 3 m. tall; branches greyish to brownish, cylindric, glabrous or puberulous; branchlets sometimes densely cinereous- or whitish-villous and somewhat spinescent. Petiole 0·5–1·5 cm. long, subterete, canaliculate above, slender, sparsely hairy. Leaflets usually discolorous (dark green above, paler below), membranous, at first ± sparsely and subappressed-pubescent and scrofulous on both surfaces, later glabrescent or glabrous, margin entire or with 3 blunt teeth at the apex; midrib prominent on both surfaces, lateral nerves not or very slightly raised on both surfaces, tertiary nerves and reticulation not visible; median leaflet 1·8–3·3 × 0·4–1·4 cm., elongate-cuneate, the lateral ones c. half as long as the median one, obovate and not so cuneate at the base. Panicles terminal and axillary, usually shorter than the leaves, pubescent. Calyx-segments c. 0·5 mm. long, triangular, obtuse, pubescent. Petals 0·75–1 mm. long, ovate, obtuse. Drupe cinnamon-brown to dark-brown, shining, c. 3–3·5 mm. in diam., compressed, subcircular in outline.
Habitat
On stony ground near seasonally-flowing streams.
Distribution
Mozambique M Maputo, R. Changalane, male fl. 23.iii.1947, Hornby 2659 (SRGH); Namaacha, Goba, st. 8.i.1947, Pedro & Pedrógão 407 (LMJ).
Distribution (external)
Cape Prov
Orange Free State
Natal
Swaziland
Transvaal
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