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Gerrardina foliosa Oliv.

Family	:	Gerrardinaceae
Local name	:	English- Gerrardina
Distribution	:	native to southern and eastern Africa
Habitat	:	Rocky hillsides
Key botanical characters: Shrub or tree up to 10 m high. Branches greyish-brown to brown, pubescent at ends. Leaf-blade elliptic, 2,6-6,5 cm long, 1-2,5 cm wide, apex acute to obtuse, base narrowly to broadly cuneate, margin callose-serrulate to serrate, sometimes only in upper 2h, thickened, revolute, midrib prominent below, lateral nerves 9-13, subprominent below, tertiary nerves reticulate, immersed, glabrescent, coriaceous, pale green below; petiole 2-7 mm long. Inflorescence an axillary cyme; peduncles erect, 1-4 cm long, slender. Flowers 2-6 per cyme; pedicels 1-3 mm long. Calyx-lobes yel- lowish, unequal, margins entire or glandular-denticulate, faintly keeled; 2 outer rounded, c. 1,5 mm diam.; 3 inner elliptic to obovate-spathulate, 2-3 mm long, 2 mm wide. Petals elliptic, 2 mm long, 1,5 mm wide, deciduous. Stamens 1 mm long with filaments reddish distally; anthers c. 0,7 mm long. Disc shallowly 5-lobed, reddish-brown. Ovary depressed ovoid, 8-ridged radially above, 1-locular.