Pogonospermum leucoderme
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Flower
29 Apr 2008
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Flower
29 Apr 2008
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Habit
14 Dec 2008
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Leaves
04 Apr 2009
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Flower and leaves
04 Apr 2009
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Hairy leaves
21 Mar 2008
| Family: | Acanthaceae |
| Full name: | Pogonospermum leucoderme (Schinz) I. Darbysh. & Kiel |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | - |
| English common name(s): | - |
| Synonym(s): | Monechma leucoderme (Schinz) C.B. Clarke Justicia leucodermis Schinz |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Suffrutex or much-branched shrublet up to 0.35 m high, rounded or cushion-like, occasionally diffuse, old plants very gnarled, bark white, becoming grey with age. Branches hairy when young, becoming glabrous and polished, pale grey, creamy or white. Leaves petiolate, glabrous or with short hairs and often with glands, elliptic, ovate or obovate, 8-10(-15) mm long, apex obtuse or acute, thin in texture; petiole up to 4 mm long. Flowers solitary. Bracteoles narrow, 3 mm long at an thesis. Calyx hairy and/or glandular, lobes like bracteoles, 5 mm long, lengthening in fruit. Corolla 10-11 mm long, purple, mauve or white. Capsule minutely hairy, 7-8 mm long. Seeds (immature) more or less round, lenticular, 2 mm in diameter, brown. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora of Southern Africa) Minutely puberulous; stem short, stout, branches many, 4–9 in. long; leaves 0.333 by 0.25 in., tip obtuse, triangular, base narrowed; petiole 0– 0.0833 in. long; flowers solitary, axillary; bracteoles 2, 0.167 in. long, linear; calyx 0.167 in. long, 5-partite to the base; segments linear, minutely pubescent, and in Schinz, 29, with gland-headed hairs; corolla scarcely 0.5 in. long; one anther-cell below the other, tailed; pollen ellipsoid with 2 stopples, bands and tubercles obscure; capsule 0.167– 0.2 in. long, ovoid, on a short narrow stalk, 2-seeded, puberulous to the base; seeds discoid, hard, brown, smooth, shining, blotched. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora Capensis) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer) iNaturalist (Namibia) iNaturalist (southern Africa) Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
