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A note on Colpoon (Santalaceae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2010

O. M. Hilliard
O. M. Hilliard
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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Inverleith Row, Edinburgh EH3 5LR, UK.
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When, in 1989, I wrote an account of Santalaceae for Flora Zambesiaca (which account will not be published for several more years), I had no hesitation in including Colpoon Berg, in Osyris L., as A. De Candolle (1857) had originally done. The morphology of stem and leaf is identical: distinctive flattened twigs, branchlets ribbed by vascular strands running out into the midrib of the leaf, and both leaf surfaces closely and minutely white-dotted (these dots are probably the ‘abundant cluster and sphaerocrystals noted in the mesophyll of Osyris abyssinica’ by Metcalfe & Chalk (1950, p. 1197)).

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Edinburgh Journal of Botany , Volume 51 , Issue 3 , November 1994 , pp. 391 - 392
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Copyright © Trustees of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 1994

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