- Family: Araliaceae Juss.
- Genus: Cussonia Thunb.
Cussonia natalensis Sond.
- Genus: Cussonia Thunb.
This species is accepted, and its native range is Zimbabwe to S. Africa.
[FZ]
Araliaceae, J. F. M. Cannon. Flora Zambesiaca 4. 1978
- Habit
- Small tree up to 10 m.
- Leaves
- Leaves palmate, coriaceous, up to 14 × 22 cm.; lobes (3)5, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 1–4 cm. wide, with conspicuous midrib, lateral veins and reticulum of veinules.
- Petiole
- Petiole up to 18 cm. long.
- Leaf margin
- Margin regularly serrate (to subentire); apex long-acuminate; base broadly obtuse to deeply cordate.
- Inflorescences
- Inflorescence a group of spikes without obvious basal bracts, up to 10 cm. long in flower; peduncle c. 1/3 of the total length of the spike; each flower subtended by a minute deltate floral bract, some of which are also present on the sterile part of the peduncle.
- Calyx
- Calyx forming a relatively prominent cup.
- Note
- Spikes elongating slightly in fruit.
- Stylopodium
- Stylopodium not well developed, narrowly conical; styles free at the apex for c. 5 mm.
- Fruits
- Fruit subglobose with a flattened top, glabrous.
Native to:
KwaZulu-Natal, Northern Provinces, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Cussonia natalensis Sond. appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status |
---|---|---|---|---|
Biegel, H. [4800], Zimbabwe | K000282826 | |||
Biegel, H. [3982], Zimbabwe | K000282827 |
First published in W.H.Harver, Fl. Cap. 2: 568 (1862)
Accepted by
- Frodin, D.G. & Govaerts, R. (2003 publ. 2004). World Checklist and Bibliography of Araliaceae: 1-444. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
Flora Zambesiaca
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