Sesamum capense
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Flower
21 Mar 2008
| Family: | Pedaliaceae |
| Full name: | Sesamum capense Burm.f. |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Aprilbaadjie, Seeroogblaar |
| English common name(s): | - |
| Synonym(s): | - |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Stem erect, simple or branched, 0.5–6 ft. high, slender or stout, angular and sulcate or subterete, more or less mealy-glandular in the upper part, otherwise glabrous; leaves digitately 5–3-foliolate; leaflets obovate-oblong to linear or lanceolate, subobtuse or obtuse, entire, narrowed at the base into a petiolule, or the outer sessile or fusing below, the intermediate the longest, 1–2.5 in. long, 1–9 lin. broad, rarely more or less mealy-glandular on both sides, glaucous above; petioles 3–1 in. long, subebracteolate; nectaries sessile; calyx 2.5 lin. long, more or less pubescent; segments lanceolate, acuminate; corolla violet outside, violet-purple inside, pubescent, obliquely campanulate; tube up to 1 in. long, very slightly curved at the base; lobes about 0.5 in. long, subequal; capsule 1.5–1.75 in. long, 3–4 lin. broad, sparingly pubescent, each valve strongly 3-nerved and produced at the base into 2 rounded or obscurely 3-lobed knobs or short horns, beak about 5 lin. long, subulate-acuminate from a triangular base; seeds 4 lin. long including the wing which runs all round, faces muriculate-foveolate. (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 |
