Chascanum garipense
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Habit
01 Jul 2011
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Leaf detail
01 Jul 2011
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Flower
01 Jul 2011
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Flower
20 Sep 2013
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Habit
20 Sep 2013
| Family: | Verbenaceae |
| Full name: | Chascanum garipense E.Mey. |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | - |
| English common name(s): | White chascanum |
| Synonym(s): | Bouchea garepensis (E.Mey.) Schauer Bouchea glandulifera H.Pearson fide Prodromus einer Flora von Südwestafrika 122: 2 Plexipus garipensis (E.Mey.) R.Fern. |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | An erect glabrous undershrub, 2–3 ft. high; stem subangular, striate, with internodes 2–3 in. long; leaves opposite or subopposite, petiolate, oblong-ovate or obovate, shortly cuneate at the base, thick, coarsely obtusely and deeply dentate-serrate, 0.333–1 in. long, 2–5 lin. broad; raceme narrow, elongate, bearing numerous crowded erect adpressed flowers, 0.333–1 ft. long; bracts linear-subulate, puberulous on the margin, otherwise glabrous, 3 lin. long; bracteoles setaceous, 0.5 lin. long; calyx shortly and unequally toothed, glabrous without, puberulous within, 3–4 lin. long; corolla-tube straight or slightly curved, puberulous within at the throat, otherwise glabrous, 8 lin. long; lobes broad, 1–1.5 lin. long, 1 lin. broad; filaments glandular-puberulous; fruit oblong, slightly curved, reticulately sculptured, 1.5 lin. long, 0.5– 0.75 lin. broad, not separating into 2 cocci when mature; areole bounded by a dentate margin, covering nearly half the anterior face of the fruit. (from JSTOR Global Plants website) |
| 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 |
