PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / BRUNIALES / BRUNIACEAE / BRUNIEAE / BRUNIA / MNIOTHAMNEA / BULLATA
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]
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]
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]
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Names and Sources
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).
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
10 results for Brunia bullata (Schltr.) Class.-Bockh. & E.G.H.Oliv.
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.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
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.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
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.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
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.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
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.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
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.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
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.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
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.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0559592-0 Collector(s) & number: Schlechter, FRR, 2097 | 1893-1-13
South Africa, Western Cape, SWELLENDAM DIST.; IN RUPIUM FISSURIS, LANGEBERGEN PR. ZUURBRAAK.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
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).
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 Brunia bullata (Schltr.) Class.-Bockh. & E.G.H.Oliv.
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