Melhania damarana
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Habit
30 Apr 2011
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Flower buds and leaves
30 Apr 2011
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Flower buds and leaves
30 Apr 2011
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Flower buds and leaves
30 Apr 2011
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Flower
31 Mar 2015
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Flower
31 Mar 2015
| Family: | Sterculiaceae |
| Full name: | Melhania damarana Harv. |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | - |
| English common name(s): | - |
| Synonym(s): | - |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Diffuse, densely stellato-tomentose and canescent; leaves conspicuously petioled, broadly ovate or oblong, subcordate at base, obtuse, unequally toothed, with prominent veins beneath; peduncles 1-flowered; invol. leaflets lanceolate, shorter than the lanceolate-acuminate, stellato-tomentose calyx lobes. Nearly related to M. ovata, Cav. (M. oblongata, Hochst.), but with much broader involucral leaflets. Petioles uncial. Leaves 1–1.5 inches long, 0.75–1 inch wide. Petals expanded, twice as long as the sepals. Filaments of the fertile stamens very short; anthers 3–4 times longer. Staminodia narrow-oblong, subspathulate. Style as long as the staminodia. All parts of the plant densely tomentose, with whitish or yellowish hairs. (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 |
