PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / BRUNIALES / BRUNIACEAE / BRUNIEAE / BRUNIA / MNIOTHAMNEA / BULLATA

Brunia bullata (Schltr.) Class.-Bockh. & E.G.H.Oliv.
CR Indigenous Endemic
Morphological description

Undershrubs with decumbent much branched wiry stems usually forming a tangled mass 1-1.5 cm high. Branchlets slender variably pilose. Leaves mostly 1.5-3 mm long, slightly imbricate, erect, broad-based, ovate or elliptic-ovate, acute, rounded-convex and pilose on the dorsal surface, becoming almost glabrous; the ventral surface deeply concave, glabrous or pilose. Bracteoles opposite, lanceolate, pilose on the dorsal surface, scarcely as long as the calyx-tube. Calyx densely villous on the outer surface: calyx-lobes 0.75 mm long, deltoid-lanceolate, acute. Petals scarcely 1.5 mm long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, shortly incurved at the apex, convex and pilose on the dorsal surface, concave and glabrous on the ventral surface, with short fleshy keels converging at the base. Anthers reaching to the upper half of the petals, scarcely 0.5 mm long, rotund. Ovules angular. Style reaching to the middle of the petals. Fruit elliptic, with 10 acute ridges. From: Pillans, NS. 1947. A revision of Bruniaceae. J. S. African Bot. 13: 121-203. [CC BY] As: Mniothamnea bullata Schltr.

Like B. callunoides but a sprawling, mat-forming undershrub to 10 cm, leaves with spreading hairs. From: Oliver, EGH; Classen-Bockhoff, R. 2012. Bruniaceae. In: 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. [CC BY]

Habitat

Damp sandstone rocks. From: Oliver, EGH; Classen-Bockhoff, R. 2012. Bruniaceae. In: 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. [CC BY]

Distribution

Swellendam Div. From: Pillans, NS. 1947. A revision of Bruniaceae. J. S. African Bot. 13: 121-203. [CC BY] As: Mniothamnea bullata Schltr.

Langeberg: Swellendam. From: Oliver, EGH; Classen-Bockhoff, R. 2012. Bruniaceae. In: 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. [CC BY]

Flowering time

September

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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
Brunia bullata (Schltr.) Class.-Bockh. & E.G.H.Oliv.

Published in: Taxon 60(4): 1151 (2011)

Type: Schlechter 2097 (BOL-135831, lecto.; B-100154418, 19, BR-8868725, GRA, Z, isolecto.) Lectotype designated by Oliver in Classen-Bockhoff, Taxon 60(4): 1151 (2011).

Synonym(s)

Mniothamnea bullata Schltr.

Published in: Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 53: 318 (1915)


Classification

KINGDOM Plantae

SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae

PHYLUM Anthophyta

ORDER Bruniales

FAMILY Bruniaceae

TRIBE Brunieae

GENUS Brunia

SUBGENUS Mniothamnea

SPECIES bullata

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Barcode: PRE0457349-0 Collector(s) & number: Esterhuysen, EE, 10479 | 1944-9-15

South Africa, Western Cape, Swellendam Div., Lemonshoek Peak, ledges on S. side below summit.

General notes: Forming mats.

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Barcode: SAM0057756-0 Collector(s) & number: Esterhuysen, EE, 10479 | 1944-9-15

South Africa, Western Cape, Swellendam Div., Lemoenshoek PK., ledges on S. side below summit, sprawling, forming mats.

General notes: Determined as Raspalia bullata (Schltr.) A.V.Hall, Sept. 2000.

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Barcode: NBG0194821-0 Collector(s) & number: Schlechter, 2097 | 1893-1-13

South Africa, Western Cape, Swellendam District., Langeberg. Zuurbraak.

General notes: Determined as Raspalia bullata (Schltr.) A.V.Hall, Sept. 2000.

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Barcode: NBG0020389-1 Collector(s) & number: Esterhuysen, EE, 10479 | 1944-9-15

South Africa, Western Cape, Swellendam Dist. Lemoenshoek Peak. Ledges on S. side below summit.

General notes: Sprawling, forming mats. Det. A.V.Hall, Sept. 2000 as Raspalia bullata (Schltr.) A.V.Hall.

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Barcode: NBG0210776-0 Collector(s) & number: Turner, RC, 1079 | 2004-7-27

South Africa, Western Cape, Langeberg Mtns. Zuurbraak Mountain Summit. Approximately 1 km WWSW of trig beacon 1506.8 m, 1.02 km EENE of spot height 1512 m.

General notes: Steep, wet, south-facing rock ledges. Localized sub-population of approx. 10 apparently resprouting plants, not flowering. Two plants very old, fire-escaped, with multiple long, hanging stems. Remaining plants approx. 4 years old, mat-forming, growing vigorously. Growing in association with Erica albescens and Erica podophylla.

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Barcode: NBG1573505-0 Collector(s) & number: Hoekstra, RD, RDH #28 | 2023-3-8

South Africa, Western Cape, Cape, Garden Route. Riversdale Division. Sleeping Beauty Peak.

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Barcode: NBG0085181-0 Collector(s) & number: Rourke, JP, 638 | 1966-10-19

South Africa, Western Cape, Heidelberg Dist. Lemoenshoek, at summit.

General notes: Forming tufted cushions in rock crevices along knife edge and at summit. Rare; Flowers minute creamy - white. Det. A.V.Hall, Sept. 2000 as Raspalia bullata (Schltr.) A.V.Hall.

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Barcode: NBG0020389-2 Collector(s) & number: Esterhuysen, EE, 10479 | 1944-9-15

South Africa, Western Cape, Swellendam Dist. Lemoenshoek Peak. Ledges on S. side below summit.

General notes: Sprawling, forming mats. Det. A.V.Hall, Sept. 2000 as Raspalia bullata (Schltr.) A.V.Hall.

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Barcode: PRE0559592-0 Collector(s) & number: Schlechter, FRR, 2097 | 1893-1-13

South Africa, Western Cape, SWELLENDAM DIST.; IN RUPIUM FISSURIS, LANGEBERGEN PR. ZUURBRAAK.

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Barcode: NBG0210775-0 Collector(s) & number: Claben-Bockhoff, R, 4018 | 1996-11-29

South Africa, Western Cape, Grootvadersbos. Grootberg summit.

General notes: Mountain summit. Prostrate between rocks, about 10 cm in height, 30 cm diameter. Minute yellow flowers. Very rare (only 2 individuals in a distance of about 5 metres).

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2012

SERIES CHAPTER

Bruniaceae Oliver, EGH; Classen-Bockhoff, R

In: 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, M

Taxon 60(4)1138-1155

1947

PERIODICAL/JOURNAL

A revision of Bruniaceae Pillans, NS

Journal of South African Botany 13: 121-203

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