PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / BRUNIALES / BRUNIACEAE / BRUNIEAE / BERZELIA / RUBRA
About 1 m high, moderately branched, with arachnoid-pilose branchlets. Leaves mostly 1-1.2 cm long, erect-spreading, spreading or reflexed, linear-lanceolate, obtuse, slightly incurved, stoutly keeled on the greater part of the dorsal surface and throughout the ventral surface, tetragonal about the apex, at first pilose, becoming glabrous. Flowering heads mostly 7-8 mm wide, globose, terminating short branchlets arranged in a raceme-like formation. Bract and bracteoles spathulate, villous on the dorsal surface, reaching to shortly above the middle of the petals. Calyx-tube broadly oblong, clothed with caducous unicellular hairs: calyx-lobes linear-lanceolate, apiculate, with caducous hairs on the dorsal surface, reaching to shortly above the middle of the petals. Petals about 2 mm long, linear-oblong, tapering towards the base, obtuse, glabrous or sparsely pilose on the lower half of the dorsal surface, cream-coloured, indistinctly keeled on the lower half. Stamens shortly exerted: anthers 1 mm long, elliptic: thecae free f of their length. Ovary slightly more than 1/2 inferior, conical and villous in the upper part. Fruit unknown. From: Pillans, NS. 1947. A revision of Bruniaceae. J. S. African Bot. 13: 121-203. [CC BY]
Caledon Div. From: Pillans, NS. 1947. A revision of Bruniaceae. J. S. African Bot. 13: 121-203. [CC BY]
30 to 900 m
This map contains point-based occurrences at different locations
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
Published in: Linnaea 6: 189 (1831)
Type: sine loc., sine coll. (B, Herb. Willd. 4823, holo.)
Brunia rubra Willd.
Published in: Denkschr. Königl. Akad. Wiss. München 1: 131 (1809)
Berzelia squarrosa (Thunb.) Sond. var. reflexa Sond.
Published in: Fl. Cap. [Harvey & Sonder] 2: 312 (1862)
Classification
KINGDOM Plantae
SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae
PHYLUM Anthophyta
ORDER Bruniales
FAMILY Bruniaceae
TRIBE Brunieae
GENUS Berzelia
SPECIES rubra
26 results for Berzelia rubra (Willd.) Schltdl.
Barcode: PRE0487866-0 Collector(s) & number: Orchard, ER, 274 | 1975-3-26
South Africa, Western Cape, Hermanus, Fernkloof Nature Reserve.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0436066-0 Collector(s) & number: Kruger, FJ, KR 204 | 1966-10-
South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Province, Grabouw Distr., Lebanon.
General notes: Det.: P.J. Thompson.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0544089-0 Collector(s) & number: Raven, PH, 26145 | 1973-7-14
South Africa, Western Cape, Caledon Div., Hermanus, Volgelgat Nature Reserve.
General notes: Det.: P.H. & T.E. Raven.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0436211-0 Collector(s) & number: Boucher, C, 1434 | 1971-2-1
South Africa, Western Cape, Klein River mts., Watershed between Diepgat and Vogelgat Rivers.
General notes: 1968. Det.: E. Powrie.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0436213-0 Collector(s) & number: Stokoe, TP, SAM 63918 | 1947-9-
South Africa, Western Cape, Caledon Dist., Klein River mts.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0436210-0 Collector(s) & number: Stokoe, TP, 8258 | 1941-5-
South Africa, Western Cape, Caledon Dist., Klein River mts.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0581649-0 Collector(s) & number: Wicht, CL, J 546 | 1943-6-26
South Africa, Western Cape, Jonkershoek State Forest: behind Dwarsberg.
General notes: Site not recently burned. Det.: E. Powrie.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0436212-0 Collector(s) & number: Galpin, EE, 12862 | 1934-4-24
South Africa, Western Cape, Hermanus, Maanschijnkop, Summit Maanschyn Kop.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0582024-0 Collector(s) & number: Kruger, FJ, KR 115 | 1966-7-
South Africa, Western Cape, Grabouw. Lebanon. Moist sites, along streams.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0436145-0 Collector(s) & number: Kruger, FJ, 1508 | 1971-11-5
South Africa, Western Cape, W. Cape, Worcester, Klein Drakenstein Mountains. Upper Kasteelkloof catchment.
General notes: Isolated colony.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0686911-0 Collector(s) & number: Oliver, EGH, 8687 | 1985-2-22
South Africa, Western Cape, Klein River mts., Crest of Volgelgat Reserve.
General notes: Det.: A. Fellingham.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0457356-0 Collector(s) & number: Rourke, JP, 1296 | 1971-4-15
South Africa, Western Cape, Klein river mts., between Maanskynkop and Aasvoelkop slopes along summit.
General notes: Det.: J. P. Rourke. New stems regenerated from a persistent rootstock.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0581428-0 Collector(s) & number: Kruger, FJ, 1390 | 1971-9-9
South Africa, Western Cape, Worcester. Waterval State Forest. Kliphuisvlakte, Porterville Plateau.
General notes: Local group of somewhat erect shrubs. c. 1,2 m tall near rock koppie on sandy flats. Sprouts from rootstock.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0436656-0 Collector(s) & number: Van der Merwe, P, 805 | 1961-7-27
South Africa, Western Cape, Swartboskloof Dist.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0436064-0 Collector(s) & number: Taylor, HC, 6591 | 1965-11-12
South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Province, Stellenbosch Dist., Dwarsberg, Jonkershoek.
General notes: Occasional. Probably very local.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0436209-0 Collector(s) & number: Stokoe, TP, 56811 | 1940-9-
South Africa, Western Cape, Caledon Dist., Klein River mts., E. of Rocklands Peak.
General notes: Det.: T.P. Stokoe.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
This map contains point-based occurrences at different locations
2012
SERIES CHAPTER
Bruniaceae Oliver, EGH; Classen-Bockhoff, RIn: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 442-448
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria
2011
PERIODICAL/JOURNAL
A new classification of the South African endemic family Bruniaceae based on molecular and morphological data Classen-Bockhoff, R; Oliver, EGH; Hall, AV; Quint, MTaxon 60(4)1138-1155
1947
No results found for Berzelia rubra (Willd.) Schltdl.
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