- Family:
- Lauraceae Juss.
- Genus:
- Ocotea Aubl.
Ocotea bullata (Burch.) Baill.

[FTEA]
Lauraceae, Bernard Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1996
- Morphology General Habit
- A native of South Africa it is a tree 9-27 m. tall with a clean tapering trunk up to 1.8 m. diameter with smooth grey bark often marked with pink or mauve but becoming dark and scaly with age.
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaf-blades ± oblong or elliptic-oblong, 5-10 cm. long, 2.5-5 cm. wide, acute or subacute at the apex, cuneate at the base, glossy and glabrous; midrib with hairy domatia on either side near base.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit ellipsoid, ± 2 cm. long.
Native to:
Cape Provinces, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Northern Provinces
Ocotea bullata (Burch.) Baill. appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Jan 1, 1938 | Drege [s.n.], South Africa | K000350873 | Unknown type material | Yes | |
Jan 1, 1938 | Grey, F. [s.n.], South Africa | K000350874 | Unknown type material | Yes | |
Jan 1, 1938 | Burchell, W.J. [5409], South Africa | K000846148 | Unknown type material | Yes | |
Drege [s.n.], South Africa | K000350875 | Yes |
First published in Hist. Pl. 2: 466 (1870)
Accepted by
- Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa an annotated checklist Strelitzia 14: 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
- Rodrigues de Moraes, P.L. (2013). The collections of Lauraceae in the herbarium of Henri Van Heurck (AWH) Plant Ecology and Evolution 146: 360-383.
Literature
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa an annotated checklist Strelitzia 14: 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
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Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0