Corbichonia exellii
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04 Apr 2015
| Family: | Molluginaceae |
| Full name: | Corbichonia exellii Sukhor. |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Sierkooltjie |
| English common name(s): | - |
| Synonym(s): | - |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Similar to C. decumbens but with ca. 30 petals per flower (C. decumbens has ca. 20) and sepal/petal ratio > 1.2 (C. decumbens sepal/petal ratio = ca. 1.20) Plants up to 50 cm, very branched from the base; insignificantly lignified white perennial stems bearing angular, upright or ascending annual shoots (Fig. 4A) that are glabrous or sometimes can be covered with solitary simple and short-stalked glandular hairs; all leaves fleshy, glaucous, cuneate, apex shortly mucronate; lowermost leaves obovate, 3.0–7.0 × 1.5–3.0 cm, middle and upper leaves oblong or ovoid (Fig. 4B), with shortened vegetative shoots in their axils; inflorescences monochasial looking umbel-like (Fig. 4C); sepals approximately 4 mm, slightly accrescent (to 6 mm) in fruit; 20–30 petal-like staminodia (Fig. 4D), mauve or pink; stamens 20 or more, anthers white; capsule orbicular, 6–7 mm in diameter, papery; seeds numerous, 1.0–1.2 mm, reniform; testa cells without papilla-like elongations (Fig. 5 G, H, I). Habitat:—Scrubs, limestone, deserts and ruderal sites; 0–700 m a.s.l. (upper extent of the altitude is not precisely known). Phenology:—Flowering December–June; fruiting February–July. |
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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 |
