WorldFloraDB - Nectaropetalum capense

Characteristics

Arbuscula ramosa, omnino glaberrima, ad 15 m alta vel ultra. Rami adscendentes, cortice rudi. Folia patentia, petiolata, elliptica, utrinque angustata, acuminata, integra, tenuia, subrigida vix coriacea, marginibus leviter reflexis, venis primariis lateralibus crebris circiter 12-20 rectis marginem non attingentibus, interstitiis tenuiter reticulatis; petioli 0.3-0.5 cm longi; lamina 2.8-7.3 cm longa; stipulae caducae, lanceolatae, arcte involutae, gemmas involventes, circiter 1 cm longae. Flores axillares, saepius 2-3 glomerati, rarius solitarii; pedunculi ebracteati, 0.2-0.3 cm longi. Calycis segmenta erecto-incurva, ovata, acuta, crassa, coriacea, circiter 0.23 cm longa. Petala erecto-patentia, obtusa, 0.7-0.8 cm longa. Discus 0.05 cm longus. Filamenta erecta, circiter 0.85 cm longa. Stylus erectus, quam stamina paullo longior. Stigmatis lobi revoluti, acuti, glanduliferi. Ovarium ovatum, glabrum, circiter 0.2 cm longum.

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Shrub or small tree, 3-4(15) m high, with twigs sometimes compressed. Leaves simple, elliptic, up to 100 x 55 mm, entire, penninerved, with well-defined net-veining below, translucent when held up to light; petioles ± 6 mm long; stipules intrapetiolar, usually basally united, spike-shaped, deciduous. Flowers axillary, in few-flowered, compacted fascicles, on stalks up to 1.5 mm long, greenish white, heterostylous. Petals free, white, nectary appendage absent. Stamens united at base into shallow cup. Ovary 2-locular, each locule with 1 ovule. Flowering time July-Nov. Fruit fleshy, oval, up to 10 mm long, green, turning yellow after falling.

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Foliage retention	deciduous
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Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:544803-1
WFO ID	wfo-0001073421
COL ID	462QD
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Synonyms

Peglera capensis Nectaropetalum capense

WorldFloraDB 2024

Nectaropetalum capense Stapf & Boodle

Species

Angiosperms > Malpighiales > Erythroxylaceae > Nectaropetalum