PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / BRUNIALES / BRUNIACEAE / BRUNIEAE / STAAVIA / ZEYHERI
About 90 cm high, moderately branched, with wiry villous branchlets. Leaves mostly 1.3-1.5 cm long, including the petiole (2 mm in length), closely set, erect-spreading, linear-lanceolate, somewhat acuminate, subacute, acutely convex on the dorsal surface, concave on the ventral surface, at first ciliate, soon becoming glabrous. Stipules absent. Flower-heads 3-4 mm wide, rotund, involucred, 5-7-flowered, axillary, sessile, crowded in rotund groups of 8-24 at the ends of branches: involucral leaves considerably overtopping the flowers, mostly 4-8 mm long, linear-oblong in the lower half, attenuate upwards, obtuse, coriaceous, ciliate in the lower half, whitish, slightly spreading from the middle, the outer about half as long as the inner which serve as bracts. Bracteoles 2, reaching to shortly above the middle of the flower, acicular, with long caducous hairs on the dorsal surface. Calyx-tube turbinate, clothed with long caducous hairs, adhering to the ovary except for a narrow upper margin: calyx-lobes lanceolate, subulate-acuminate, with caducous hairs on the dorsal surface, reaching to well above the middle of the petals. Petals about 2-5 mm long, oblong, very obtuse, villous on the upper half of the dorsal surface. Anthers oblong, reaching to well above the middle of the petals. Styles connate throughout, reaching the upper half of the petals. Fruit 1- or 2-seeded: seeds elliptic, smooth, black. From: Pillans, NS. 1947. A revision of Bruniaceae. J. S. African Bot. 13: 121-203. [CC BY]
Densely leafy, willowy shrub to 2 m. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 13-15 mm long, long-hairy becoming glabrescent. Flowers in small heads crowded in ovoid clusters, surrounded by short, white bracts, pink, woolly. 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]
The arrangement of the flower-heads is unlike that in any other species in the genus, and may be compared to the arrangement in Nebelia fragarioides Kuntze. From: Pillans, NS. 1947. A revision of Bruniaceae. J. S. African Bot. 13: 121-203. [CC BY]
Rocky sandstone slopes. 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]
Caledon Div. From: Pillans, NS. 1947. A revision of Bruniaceae. J. S. African Bot. 13: 121-203. [CC BY]
Riviersonderend Mtns. 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]
June
0 to 200 m
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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: Fl. Cap. [Harvey & Sonder] 2: 323 (1862)
Type: Zeyher 2648 ex herb. Sond. (S-G-8312, lecto.) Lectotype designated by Oliver in Classen-Bockhoff et al., Taxon 60(4): 1147 (2011).
Classification
KINGDOM Plantae
SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae
PHYLUM Anthophyta
ORDER Bruniales
FAMILY Bruniaceae
TRIBE Brunieae
GENUS Staavia
SPECIES zeyheri
8 results for Staavia zeyheri Sond.
Barcode: NBG0110583-0 Collector(s) & number: Goldblatt, P, 2061 | 1974-6-14
South Africa, Western Cape, Caledon District. Kloof north of Riviersonderend. Above 2nd water intake.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0084695-2 Collector(s) & number: Williams, IJM, 752 | 1966-6-23
South Africa, Western Cape, Caledon. Oliphants River Valley. Riviersonderend.
General notes: South facing, damp mountain slopes. Small shrubs. Locally frequent.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: SAM0036304-0 Collector(s) & number: Zeyher, 2648 | --
South Africa, Western Cape, Riviersonderend. E. of Riviersonderend town. Rocky places on mountains near Appelskraal.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: SAM0056789-0 Collector(s) & number: Stokoe, TP, s.n. | 1945-10-
South Africa, Western Cape, Caledon Div., Riviersonderend Mountain Peak, lower eastern slopes.
General notes: Plant 3 ft. high.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0020508-0 Collector(s) & number: Stokoe, TP, s.n. | 1945-10-17
South Africa, Western Cape, Caledon. Lower Eastern slopes of River Zonder End Peak.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0434084-0 Collector(s) & number: Goldblatt, P, 2061 | 1974-6-14
South Africa, Western Cape, CALEDON DIST.; RIVIERSONDEREND; KLOOF N. OF RIVIERSONDEREND ABOVE SECOND WATER INTAKE.
General notes: Very local on eastern slope
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0084695-1 Collector(s) & number: Williams, IJM, 752 | 1966-6-23
South Africa, Western Cape, Caledon. Oliphants River Valley. Riviersonderend.
General notes: Locally frequent.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0458372-0 Collector(s) & number: Williams, IJM, 752 | 1966-6-23
South Africa, Western Cape, Caledon Dist., Olifants river valley, Riversonderend.
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 Staavia zeyheri Sond.
Status and criteria
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