Staavia staavioides (Sond.) A.V.Hall
LC Indigenous Endemic

Morphological description

About 70 cm high, with puberulous or pubescent red-brown branchlets. Leaves mostly 5-8 mm long, closely set, petiolate, erect-spreading, spreading or recurved, linear, obtuse, trigonous, glabrous, with a prominent vein on the upper surface. Flower-heads 3-4 mm wide, hemispheric, often in panicle-like clusters. Bracts accompanying the outer flowers lanceolate, concave on the ventral surface, ciliate. Bracteoles setaceous, villous, reaching to the middle of the calyx-lobes. Calyx-tube villous, with caducous hairs, with a cup-shaped free upper part: calyx-lobes linear-lanceolate, villous on the dorsal surface, reaching to the middle of the petals. Petals about 1-25 mm long, obovate, glabrous, white, with short keels converging at the base. Stamens reaching to the middle of the petals; anthers rotund. Ovary f inferior, persistently villous on the superior part, with 2 uniovulate chambers: styles united except for the diverging tips. Fruit 1-seeded. From: Pillans, NS. 1947. A revision of Bruniaceae. J. S. African Bot. 13: 121-203. [CC BY] As: Raspalia staavioides (Sond.) Pillans

Finely leafy shrub to 70 m. Leaves linear, spreading to recurved. Flowers in small, rounded heads loosely clustered in upper axils. 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

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

Clanwilliam Div. From: Pillans, NS. 1947. A revision of Bruniaceae. J. S. African Bot. 13: 121-203. [CC BY] As: Raspalia staavioides (Sond.) Pillans

Cedarberg. 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

January

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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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Invasive

Names and Sources

Accepted name
Staavia staavioides (Sond.) A.V.Hall

Published in: Taxon 60(4): 1147 (2011)

Type: Drège s.n. ex herb. Sond. (S-G-8316, lecto.) Lectotype designated by Oliver in Classen-Bockhoff et al., Taxon 60(4): 1147 (2011).

Synonym(s)

Brunia staavioides Sond.

Published in: Fl. Cap. [Harvey & Sonder] 2: 316 (1862)


Raspalia staavioides (Sond.) Pillans

Published in: J. S. African Bot. 13: 154 (1947)


Brunia capitellata E.Mey., nom.illegit., non Thunb (1804)

Published in: Zwei. Pfl. Doc. [Drege]: 169 (1844)


Classification

KINGDOM Plantae

SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae

GENUS Staavia

13 results for Staavia staavioides (Sond.) A.V.Hall

Specimen records

Barcode: PRE0721484-0 Collector(s) & number: Taylor, HC, 11544 | 1986-8-10

South Africa, Western Cape, KRAKADOUWPOORT; E OF NEK.

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Barcode: PRE0433119-0 Collector(s) & number: Stokoe, TP, PRE 56817 | 1942-9-

South Africa, Western Cape, CEDERBERG; CLANWILLIAM DIV.; KRAKADOUW PEAK.

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Barcode: PRE0433118-0 Collector(s) & number: Drege, PRE 55492 | --

South Africa, Western Cape, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE

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Barcode: PRE0433112-0 Collector(s) & number: Leipoldt, CL, 3331 | 1948-12-

South Africa, Western Cape, PAKHUIS MT.; CLANWILLIAM

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Barcode: PRE0457904-0 Collector(s) & number: Taylor, HC, 7468 | 1969-11-9

South Africa, Northern Cape, CEDARBERG; CREVASSE PEAK

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Barcode: PRE0433117-0 Collector(s) & number: Esterhuysen, EE, 12175 | 1945-10-23

South Africa, Western Cape, CEDERBERG MTS.; CLANWILLIAM DIV.; P.K AT KOUPOORT

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Barcode: PRE0433114-0 Collector(s) & number: Schlechter, FRR, 10802 | 1897-8-10

South Africa, Western Cape, PAKHUISBERG; CLANWILLIAM DIST.

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Barcode: PRE0433116-0 Collector(s) & number: Schlechter, FRR, 10802 | 1897-8-10

South Africa, Western Cape, PACKHUISBERG

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Barcode: NBG0195009-0 Collector(s) & number: Taylor, HC, 7468 | 1969-11-9

South Africa, Western Cape, Wuppertal. Crevasse Peak, Cedarberg. Altitude.: c. 4500ft.

General notes: Higher slopes and ridges. Shrub 3 ft., small dirty pink heads. Occasional.

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Barcode: NBG0195007-0 Collector(s) & number: Taylor, HC, 11544 | 1986-8-10

South Africa, Western Cape, Krakadouwpoort E of nek. Altitude.: ca 1060m.

General notes: Divaricate 1,5m shrub.

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Observation records

Date: 10/18/2021 10:00:00 AM

Western Cape, South Africa

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Date: 10/18/2021 9:11:00 AM

Western Cape

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Date: 10/18/2021 12:56:00 PM

Western Cape, South Africa

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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

1947

PERIODICAL/JOURNAL

A revision of Bruniaceae Pillans, NS

Journal of South African Botany 13: 121-203

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