Rogeria longiflora
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Habit
27 Apr 2008
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Flowers
27 Apr 2008
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Buds
27 Apr 2008
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Leaf
27 Apr 2008
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Flower
27 Apr 2008
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Dried fruit
08 Aug 2010
| Family: | Pedaliaceae |
| Full name: | Rogeria longiflora (Royen) J.Gay ex DC. |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Witblom, Djirrie witblom |
| English common name(s): | White flower, White-flowered rogeria |
| Synonym(s): | Martynia longiflora Royen Pedalium longiflorum (Royen) Decne |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Stem mealy-glandular only at the very top; leaves ovate to rotundate-ovate, subentire with a somewhat wavy margin, obtuse at the apex, subacute to subtruncate at the base, 2–3.5 in. long, 1.5–3.5 in. broad, mealy-glandular and glaucous below, boldly 3-nerved; flowers 2–1 in the axils of the leaves; pedicels densely mealy-glandular, up to 2 lin. long; calyx 3 lin. long; segments lanceolate, subequal; corolla white (Meerburg); tube subcylindric, more or less asymmetrically widened at the base, 2–2.5 in. long, 1.5 lin. wide at the middle, 3 lin. wide near the base, not glandular; limb 1.25–1.5 in. in diam.; lobes about 5 lin. long and broad excepting the lowermost which is somewhat longer; fruit oblong, 2 in. long, including the beak with 1 recurved short spine on each side of the base. (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: | 24 Jan 2012 |
