Seddera suffruticosa suffruticosa
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30 Apr 2011
| Family: | Convolvulaceae |
| Full name: | Seddera suffruticosa (Schinz) Hallier f. var. suffruticosa |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | - |
| English common name(s): | - |
| Synonym(s): | Bonamia suffruticosa (Schinz) Burtt Davy & R.Pott Breweria baccharoides Baker Breweria microcephala Baker fide Phytologia 17, 236 Breweria sessiliflora Baker Breweria suffruticosa Schinz Convolvulus mucronatus Engl. fide Fl. S. Africa 28(1): 28 Seddera welwitschii Hallier f. Seddera welwitschii Hallier f. subsp. tenuisepala Verdc. Seddera welwitschii Hallier f. var. bakeri Hiern |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Erect or spreading perennial shrubby herb with annual stems, up to 60 cm tall, growing from a woody rootstock. Leaves subsessile, lanceolate to broadly elliptic-oblong, up to 4.5 cm long, covered with medifixed hairs on both surfaces; apex often with a mucronate tip. Flowers in few-flowered axillary clusters, small, funnel-shaped, white or yellowish. Capsule ovoid to subspherical, hairless. See var. hirsutissima for comparison. (from Flora of Zimbabwe website) Suffruticose or herbaceous perennial, extremely variable. Stems several to many from a woody rootstock, up to 600 mm long, erect or spreading, terete or subterete, at first densely covered with stiff whitish hairs to villous, glabrescent; branchlets appressed pubescent or with dense patent hairs. Leaves subsessile, lanceolate to broadly elliptic-oblong, 5-40 x 2-18 mm, acuminate, acute or rounded at apex and mucronulate, rounded at base, pilose to densely hirsute on both surfaces; petiole up to 4 mm long. Flowers in few-flowered, hairy, dense, sessile or pedunculate, axillary cymes, sometimes solitary; peduncles up to 30 mm long, bearing one to several flowers. Bracteoles shorter than calyx, lanceolate. Calyx 4-7 mm long, thinly strigose to densely villous; three outer sepals lanceolate, acuminate, inner ones slightly shorter. Corolla almost campanulate, white or yellowish, ±6 mm long, limb spreading; midpetaline areas rather densely silky strigose. Ovary hairy at apex. Capsule ovoid-subglobose. Seddera suffruticosa is recognised by its few-flowered axillary cymes and short calyx lobes. For var. suffruticose the leaves usually smaller and less hairy. (from JSTOR website) Leaves usually smaller and less hairy. (from JSTOR website / Flora of Tropical East Africa) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iSpot: 172232 Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Content last updated: | 02 Dec 2012 |
