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Limeum aethiopicum Burm.f.


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Limeum aethiopicum

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Habit
15 Jun 2008

Limeum aethiopicum

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Dry flowers
15 Jun 2008

Limeum aethiopicum

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Flowers and leaves
21 Dec 2008

Limeum aethiopicum

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Flowers
21 Dec 2008

Limeum aethiopicum

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Leaves
21 Dec 2008



Family: Molluginaceae
Full name: Limeum aethiopicum Burm.f.
ID status: Fairly certain
Afrikaans common name(s): Koggelmandervoet, Koggelmandervoetkaroo
English common name(s): -
Synonym(s): -
Status: Native
Description: Glabrous perennial herbs or subshrubs up to 40 cm tall, woody at base, developing herbaceous shoots; stems erect or ascendent, sparingly branched, striate, minutely scaberulous or smooth. Leaves sessile to shortly petiolate, alternate to subopposite; lamina 5–27 x 1–4 mm, linear to lanceolate or oblanceolate, entire, midrib prominent below; petiole up to 3 mm long, enlarged at base. Inflorescences mostly terminal, 15–100-flowered, umbelliform, pedunculate. Flowers whitish, small, with pedicels up to 2 mm long and membranous whitish lanceolate bracteoles. Perianth-segments 5, 2–3 mm long, slightly unequal, membranous, whitish, with greenish keel, broadly ovate, obtuse, slightly mucronate. Staminodes 0–5, shorter than the perianth-segments, evanescent, with long claw and ovate limb. Stamens (5)7, with filaments much broadened and fimbriate below. Ovary 2-lobed, glabrous. Mericarps 2–3 mm in diameter, pitted and furrowed, sometimes very shortly tuberculate, not auriculate at base. (from JSTOR website / Flora Zambesiaca)

Stems diffuse, woody, angular and striate, minutely scaberulous or glabrous, pale or greenish; leaves on short clasping petioles, linear or linear-lanceolate, obtuse or acute, often mucronulate, glabrous; cymes terminal and lateral, on short peduncles, or sub-sessile, dense, capitato-corymbose, many-flowered; sepals broadly oval, obtuse, mucronulate, one-nerved; fruit as long as the sepals, pitted and furrowed. (from JSTOR website / Flora Capensis)
Link(s) African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science
Kew Herbarium Catalogue
BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium
Züricher Herbarien
Flora of Zimbabwe
Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie
Content last updated: 22 Nov 2011


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