Orthanthera albida
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Habit
02 Mar 2009
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Unopened flowers
02 Mar 2009
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Flowers
02 Mar 2009
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Fruit
02 Mar 2009
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Habit
22 Mar 2013
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Flower
30 Apr 2016
| Family: | Asclepiadaceae |
| Full name: | Orthanthera albida Schinz |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Sandmelktou |
| English common name(s): | - |
| Synonym(s): | - |
| Status: | Near-endemic |
| Description: | A much-branched bush; branches erect, crowded, slender, white-glaucous; leaves distant, erect or ascending, 0.75–1.5 in. long, 0.5–1 lin. broad, linear, pungent-acute, channelled down the face, subsessile, glabrous; umbels 4–6-flowered, subsessile or on peduncles 0.5–1 lin. long, white-tomentose, except on the corolla; bracts 0.5–1 lin. long; pedicels 0.5 lin. long or less; sepals 1 lin. long, lanceolate, acute; corolla whitish-puberulous outside, glabrous within; tube about 2.5 lin. long, slightly inflated and about 1 lin. in diam. at the base, 5-grooved; lobes 1.25–1.5 lin. long, erect, linear, subacute, with 5 minute pocket-like thickenings at the sinuses between them; corona-lobes minute, ?-shaped, arising a little above the base of the 1 lin.-long staminal column and adnate to it between and scarcely as long as the pairs of anther-wings, with free reflexed margins; anthers connivent-erect around and about equalling the slender terete style-apex, linear, with a short acute appendage, fringed or tipped with a tuft of long 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 |
