PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / LAMIALES / OLEACEAE / JASMINEAE / MENODORA / HETEROPHYLLA

Menodora heterophylla Moric. ex DC.
Indigenous
Morphological description

Undershrub with several to many slender, more or less erect branches from a woody base; branches about 7 to 25 cm tall, slender, more or less angled and ridged, sparsely scabrid. Leaves very variable in size and lobing, alternate, approximate or sometimes opposite, sessile or petioled, irregularly and pinnately 3- to 5-lobed or simple, 4-18 mm long, 3-6 mm broad, the segments acute, 1.5-2.5 mm broad, margins scabrid, inrolled, surface fairly sparsely gland-pitted. Inflorescence a reduced cyme, monochasial, flowers terminal, appearing lateral when overtopped by a secondary branch which takes the place of the main axis. Calyx persistent but not accrescent, 5-10 mm long; tube about 2 mm long; lobes 10-15, narrowly linear, entire or occasionally lobed, unequal in length and up to 1 mm broad, acute, scabrid on the margins. Corolla yellow (sometimes with red infusion in parts ?); tube about 3 mm long, infundibuliform; lobes about 1 cm long and 4.5 mm broad, oblong, slightly narrowed to the apex, or rounded with a mucro. Stamens inserted on the tubular portion of the corolla tube, filaments pilose at base, free for about 3 mm., anthers about 3 mm long, 1.5 mm broad, sub-basifixed, erect, minutely apiculate. Ovary 2-lobed, style about 6-8 mm long (appears to be red sometimes), stigma terminal, broadly capitate, obscurely bilobed. Fruit on a cernuous pedicel, a bilocular capsule, occasionally only 1 coccus develops, dehiscing circumscissilely when ripe, coat parchment-like; seeds 1-4 in each coccus, 6-9 mm long, and 4-6 mm broad, outer skin reticulated. From: Verdoorn, IC. 1963. Oleaceae. Fl. S. Africa 26: 100-128. Dept. Agric. and Technical Services, Pretoria. [CC BY]

Diagnostic description

The species M. heterophylla occurs plentifully in central Texas and southwards to certain areas in Mexico. D. Oliver writes in 1884 that N. E. Brown of Kew was the first to identify the South African plants with the Texan species. In 1932 Steyermark in his 'Revision of Menodora' agrees that the South African specimens are not specifically distinct but owing to certain morphological differences he describes them as a variety of the New World species. The main difference is in the size of the leaves, which in the Texan plants are up to 4 cm long and 3 cm broad while in our plant they are seldom even half that size. In South Africa this variety is very close to M. africana and differs principally in the leaves being lobed rather than bipinnatisect, and the segments not being subulate. The calyx segments are usually simple and only occasionally lobed, instead of being usually multipartite; the habit also is rather more erect and rigid. But owing to the variation in size and shape of the leaves of M. heterophylla var. australis, it is not always easy at first sight to distinguish between it and M. africana. From: Verdoorn, IC. 1963. Oleaceae. Fl. S. Africa 26: 100-128. Dept. Agric. and Technical Services, Pretoria. [CC BY]

Habitat

Found on sand flats in woodland or sour bushveld. From: Verdoorn, IC. 1963. Oleaceae. Fl. S. Africa 26: 100-128. Dept. Agric. and Technical Services, Pretoria. [CC BY]

Distribution

Recorded from the western Transvaal and Bechuanaland. From: Verdoorn, IC. 1963. Oleaceae. Fl. S. Africa 26: 100-128. Dept. Agric. and Technical Services, Pretoria. [CC BY]

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Residence status

Occurrence in the Flora of Southern Africa (FSA) countries and South African provinces. Residence status indicates if a taxon is indigenous, endemic, naturalised or invasive in a specific region. This data is based on specimen records and literature

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Names and Sources

Accepted name
Menodora heterophylla Moric. ex DC.

Published in: Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 8: 316 (1844)

Synonym(s)

Classification

KINGDOM Plantae

SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae

PHYLUM Anthophyta

ORDER Lamiales

FAMILY Oleaceae

TRIBE Jasmineae

GENUS Menodora

SPECIES heterophylla

This species contains accepted infraspecific taxa:

Menodora heterophylla var. australis Steyerm.

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Barcode: PRE0762488-0 Collector(s) & number: Glen, HF, 2493 | 1991-1-6

South Africa, North West, BOPHUTATSWANA; PILANESBERG NAT PARK; NEW ROAD BETWEEN MAIN ROAD AND MANKWE LOOP. CA 1 - 1.5 KM FROM MAIN ROAD.

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Barcode: PRE0322830-0 Collector(s) & number: Sutton, JD, 1113 | 1936-7-11

South Africa, North West, RUSTENBURG DIST.; ZWARTRUGGENS; RIDGE

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Barcode: PRE0699124-0 Collector(s) & number: Bezuidenhout, H, 127 | 1986-2-19

South Africa, North West, VENTERSDORP DIST.; DOORNFONTEIN; TUSSEN KONGLOMERAAT OP S KOPPIE

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Barcode: PRE0322838-0 Collector(s) & number: van Nouhuys, JJ, TRV 31047 | 1932-12-

South Africa, North West, RUSTENBURG DIST.; ASSEN P.O.; WELGEVONDEN FARM CROCODILE RIVER

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Barcode: PRE0322824-0 Collector(s) & number: Harbor, WAH, TRV 17012 | 1915-1-

Botswana, Kgatleng, MOCHUDI

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Barcode: PRE0699551-0 Collector(s) & number: Mogg, AOD, 37262 | 1966-12-16

South Africa, Gauteng, PIENAARS RIVER RAIL; 10 KM FURTHER N ON ROAD TO WARMBATHS

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Barcode: PRE0322835-0 Collector(s) & number: Liebenberg, BAM, 5106 | 1927-4-25

South Africa, North West, GROOT MARICO; SKUINSDRIFT; ALONG RODESLOOT

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Barcode: PRE0322829-0 Collector(s) & number: Sutton, JD, 852 | 1934-5-24

South Africa, North West, RUSTENBURG DIST.; ZWARTRUGGENS; RIDGE

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Barcode: PRE0322822-0 Collector(s) & number: Codd, LEW, 8937 | 1954-12-2

Botswana, BOTSWANA; GABORONE; 6 MI. NE. OF GABERONES

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Barcode: PRE0322831-0 Collector(s) & number: Thode, A1442 | 1927-12-

South Africa, North West, MARICO DIST.; ZEERUST

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Barcode: PRE0322841-0 Collector(s) & number: Carter, J, 834 | 1969-12-14

South Africa, North West, MARICO DIST.; ROOIKOPPIESFONTEIN FARM

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Barcode: PRE0351261-0 Collector(s) & number: Hanekom, WJ, 1514 | 1971-1-2

South Africa, North West, KLERKSDORP; WOLWERAND

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Barcode: PRE0861176-0 Collector(s) & number: Kurzweg, S, K1161 | 2009-5-5

South Africa, North West, Rustenburg. Impala Bafokeng Mine. Impala Platinum.

General notes: Bushveld. Slope: gentle. Voucher for flora of the western Central Bushveld Bioregion.

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Barcode: PRE0322840-0 Collector(s) & number: Carter, J, 808 | 1969-12-22

South Africa, North West, MARICO DIST.; ROODERAND 41JP FARM

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Barcode: PRE0322832-0 Collector(s) & number: Pegler, AM, 950 | 1903-9-17

South Africa, Transvaal, RUSTENBURG; BETW. PRETORIA AND WOODSTOCK

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Barcode: PRE0543156-0 Collector(s) & number: Peeters, GG, 261 | 1977-12-8

South Africa, North West, BOPHUTHATSWANA; HEUNINGSVLEI; N. OF HEUNINGSVLEI

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Barcode: PRE0322836-0 Collector(s) & number: Leendertz, R, 4286(TRV11325) | 1912-1-

South Africa, North West, ZEERUST

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Barcode: PRE0322839-0 Collector(s) & number: Acocks, JPH, 12415 | 1946-2-6

South Africa, North West, ZEERUST DIST.; 4 MI. S. OF ZEERUST

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Barcode: PRE0744199-0 Collector(s) & number: Barker, NP, 806 | 1989-11-11

South Africa, Transvaal, BRITS; BEESTEKRAAL GAME RES; C 45 KM N OF BRITS IN NE OF RESERVE

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Barcode: PRE0737809-0 Collector(s) & number: Barker, NP, 443 | 1988-10-2

South Africa, Transvaal, BRITS; BEESTEKRAAL GAME RES; C 40 KM N OF BRITS, NEAR S.E. FENCE.

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Barcode: PRE0516964-0 Collector(s) & number: Germishuizen, G, 612 | 1977-12-1

South Africa, Transvaal, PILANESBERG DIST.; BUFFELSKLOOF; BUFFELSKLOOF FARM

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Barcode: NH0018306-0 Collector(s) & number: Thode, J, s.n. | 1927-12-

South Africa, North West, Zeerust, Transvaal.

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Barcode: PRE0542094-0 Collector(s) & number: Hansen, OJ, 3464 | 1978-9-22

Botswana, GABORONE DIST.; KHALE; NR. ST. JOSEPHS COLLEGE

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Barcode: PRE0516967-0 Collector(s) & number: Germishuizen, G, 484 | 1977-11-28

South Africa, Transvaal, PILANESBERG DIST.; SAULSPOORT; KWA-RAMOGA IN KLOOF ON SIDE OF MT.

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1963

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Oleaceae Verdoorn, IC

Flora of Southern Africa 26: 100-128

Dept. Agric. and Technical Services, Pretoria

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