Ochna gamostigmata Du Toit

Species

Angiosperms > Malpighiales > Ochnaceae > Ochna

Characteristics

Small shrubs or rarely trees up to 8 m tall, forming suckers. Stems and branches brown, densely covered with grey, raised, rounded lenticels. Galls sometimes present, forming globose bodies consisting of numerous linear-subulate bracts spirally arranged. Leaves shed at time of flowering, narrowly ovate-to linear-acuminate, 2-3 cm long and c. 8 mm broad, apex acuminate, rarely acute to obtuse, base rounded or acute, margin sharply serrulate with the teeth and apex mucronate, thinly coriaceous, shiny, midrib and lateral veins distinct; stipules intrapetiolar, fused, linear, bidentate. Flowers sweetly scented, solitary, on short spurs; pedicels 1 cm at anthesis, 2 cm long and recurved in fruit, articulated at the base. Sepals ovate, 7 mm, green, somewhat enlarged in fruit and turning brownish red. Petals obovate, 7 mm, yellow. Stamens 15-25, with filaments 1 mm long; anthers biporose, 3 mm long. Carpels 5, attached basally to receptacle; style terete; stigma entire, capitate, with short swollen lobes. Drupelets oblong-globose, 8 mm long, black. Flowering in spring but with some flowers throughout the year.
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Small shrub or rarely a tree, up to 8 m high. Young twigs conspicuously and densely pale-mottled with lenticels. Leaves linear-acuminate. Flowers solitary. Sepals 10-15 mm long in fruit. Flowers yellow.
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Foliage retention deciduous
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Mature height (meter) 8.0
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Distribution

Ochna gamostigmata world distribution map, present in eSwatini and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:606609-1
WFO ID wfo-0001087127
COL ID 48D4Q
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Synonyms

Ochna gamostigmata Ochna atropurpurea var. angustifolia