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Brunia myrtoides (Vahl) Class.-Bockh. & E.G.H.Oliv.
VU Indigenous Endemic
Morphological description

About 60 cm high, moderately and often virgately branched. Branchlets villous. Leaves mostly 1-1.3 cm long, erect-spreading, ovate (the upper often narrowly ovate), acute, sparsely villous beneath, flat or slightly concave and glabrous above, ciliate, becoming glabrous. Flowers in the axils of reduced leaves, crowded in globose or hemispheric inflorescences usually about 2 cm wide. Bracteoles about 9 mm long, linear-oblanceolate, acute, navicular, villous on the back, ciliate. Calyx-tube obconic: calyx-lobes 3-3.5 mm long, oblong-lanceolate, acute, villous on the back, ciliate. Corolla 1-2-1-3 cm long, glabrous: petals connate slightly less than 2/3 in a cylindric tube; the free part consisting of a cuneate-oblong claw widening into an ovate or obovate acute lamina. Stamens inserted at the mouth of the tube: filaments about 2-5 mm long: anthers about 2 mm long, narrowly sagittate. Ovary J inferior, bilocular, 8-12-ovulate, broadly elliptic in the superior portion: styles slender, free, reaching to well above the free part of the petals; stigmas minute. From: Pillans, NS. 1947. A revision of Bruniaceae. J. S. African Bot. 13: 121-203. [CC BY] As: Lonchostoma myrtoides (Vahl) Pillans

Like B. pentandra but leaves broadly ovate-elliptic, flowers pink, petals fused for two-thirds their length, styles 10-14 mm, longer than petal tube. 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

Marshes and seeps on 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]

Distribution

Ceres Div. From: Pillans, NS. 1947. A revision of Bruniaceae. J. S. African Bot. 13: 121-203. [CC BY] As: Lonchostoma myrtoides (Vahl) Pillans

Witzenberg Vlakte to Waaihoek. 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

FSA

SA

BOT

NAM

ESW

LES

WC

EC

NC

FS

GA

KZN

LP

MP

NW

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Indigenous

Endemic

Naturalised

Invasive

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Names and Sources

Accepted name
Brunia myrtoides (Vahl) Class.-Bockh. & E.G.H.Oliv.

Published in: Taxon 60(4): 1152 (2011)

Type: illustration in Lamarck, Tabi. Encycl.: t. 856, f. 4 sub Stilbe (1799) (lecto.) Lectotype designated by Hall in Classen-Bockhoff, Taxon 60(4): 1152 (2011).

Synonym(s)

Ptyxostoma myrtoides Vahl

Published in: Skr. Naturhist. Selsk. 6: 97 (1810)


Lonchostoma myrtoides (Vahl) Pillans

Published in: J. S. African Bot. 13: 136 (1947)


Lonchostoma acutiflorum Wikstr.

Published in: Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Handl. 1818: 353, t.10 f.1 (1818)


Classification

KINGDOM Plantae

SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae

PHYLUM Anthophyta

ORDER Bruniales

FAMILY Bruniaceae

TRIBE Brunieae

GENUS Brunia

SUBGENUS Lonchostoma

SPECIES myrtoides

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Specimen records

Barcode: NBG0020301-0 Collector(s) & number: Compton, RH, 11988 | 1941-10-6

South Africa, Western Cape, Ceres. Die Vlakte.

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Barcode: NBG0020303-0 Collector(s) & number: Compton, RH, 16225 | 1944-10-1

South Africa, Western Cape, Ceres. Schurfteburg Pass.

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Barcode: NBG0193154-0 Collector(s) & number: Marloth, RH, 6154 | 1924-9-

South Africa, Western Cape, Ceres. Mountains near village.

General notes: Near water. Sandy plains.

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Barcode: NBG0020300-0 Collector(s) & number: Grant, A, 3471 | 1927-10-3

South Africa, Western Cape, Ceres.

General notes: Flowers pink.

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Barcode: NBG0020302-0 Collector(s) & number: Compton, RH, 3989 | 1931-10-

South Africa, Western Cape, Ceres Wild Flower Show.

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Barcode: NBG0193152-0 Collector(s) & number: Marloth, RH, 10697 | 1921-10-16

South Africa, Western Cape, Cape. Ceres Flower show.

General notes: Flowers scented sweet.

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Barcode: PRE0457893-0 Collector(s) & number: Esterhuysen, EE, 14914 | 1948-12-18

South Africa, Western Cape, Worcester Div., Milner Park, Hex River Mountains, below shale band.

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Barcode: PRE0433285-0 Collector(s) & number: Marloth, HWR, 6154 | 1924-9-

South Africa, Western Cape, CERES DIST.; MT. NR. CERES

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Barcode: PRE0433286-0 Collector(s) & number: Grant, A, 3471 | 1927-10-30

South Africa, Western Cape, CERES

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Barcode: SAM0056803-0 Collector(s) & number: Lewis, GJ, s.n. | 1944-12-

South Africa, Western Cape, Ceres Div. Skurfdeberg Vlakte.

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Barcode: PRE0433282-0 Collector(s) & number: Marloth, HWR, 10697 | 1921-10-15

South Africa, Western Cape, CERES DIST.

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Barcode: PRE0433284-0 Collector(s) & number: Marloth, HWR, 8792 | 1919-10-

South Africa, Western Cape, CERES

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Barcode: NBG0194824-0 Collector(s) & number: Compton, RH, 16225 | 1944-10-10

South Africa, Western Cape, Ceres Dist. Schurfteberg Pass - vlei.

General notes: Flowers pink.

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Barcode: SAM0015804-0 Collector(s) & number: Guthrie, F, 3233 | 1894-10-1

South Africa, Western Cape, [See BOL 105475 - Grows abundantly in a limited space a few branched feet below neck of long valley continuing Mostert's Hoek. Mitchell's Pass. -CFR2006]

General notes: Flowers purple 2 ft.

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Barcode: PRE0433281-0 Collector(s) & number: Marloth, HWR, PRE 28574 | 1924-10-

South Africa, Western Cape, CERES

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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

1956

PERIODICAL/JOURNAL

Lonchostoma myrtoides (Vahl) Pillans Meeuse, ADJ; Lansdell, KA; Meeuse, BJD

Flowering Plants of South Africa 31: , t.1208

1947

PERIODICAL/JOURNAL

A revision of Bruniaceae Pillans, NS

Journal of South African Botany 13: 121-203

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