Pergularia daemia garipensis
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Habit
11 Aug 2007
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Leaves
22 Mar 2013
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Flowers
22 Mar 2013
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Flowers
28 Apr 2018
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Flower
28 Apr 2018
| Family: | Asclepiadaceae |
| Full name: | Pergularia daemia (Forssk.) Chiov. subsp. garipensis (E.Mey.) Goyder |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Boontjierank |
| English common name(s): | - |
| Synonym(s): | Daemia garipensis E.Mey. (1837) Pergularia daemia var. leiocarpa (K.Schum.) H.Huber Daemia cordifolia var. leiocarpa K.Schum. |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Stem twining, very finely puberulous or glabrous; leaves probably somewhat fleshy; petiole 0.333–1 in. long, puberulous; blade 0.75–1.75 in. long, 0.5–1.25 in. broad, broadly ovate, acuminate, deeply cordate at the base, with a broad obtuse sinus more or less enclosed by the incurved rounded basal-lobes, green and glabrous on both sides or with a few very minute hairs on the veins beneath; racemes (including the peduncles) 3–6 in. long, glabrous or nearly so on all parts except the corolla; pedicels 6–10 lin. long; sepals erect, 1.333–1.666 lin. long, 0.666 lin. broad, lanceolate, acute; corolla glabrous outside; tube 1.5–2.25 lin. long, campanulate; lobes 3–4 lin. long, 2–2.25 lin. broad, ovate-oblong, obtuse, broadly bordered with white woolly hairs on the inner face, otherwise glabrous; outer corona at the base of the staminal column, submembranous, annular at the base, 5-lobed; lobes quadrate, truncate; inner corona-lobes arising 0.5– 0.666 lin. above the base of the staminal column, 2 lin. long, fleshy, gradually tapering from the base to a subulate point, much exceeding and incurved over the staminal column, their basal spurs 0.5– 0.75 lin. long, horizontally spreading; staminal column 2 lin. long; follicles solitary (always?), about 2 in. long, lanceolate, tapering into a short beak, covered with soft bristles, otherwise glabrous; seeds 2.5–3 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, ovate, plano-convex, minutely tomentose on both sides. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora Capensis) Subglabrous desert form with soft processes on follicles. (from https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/24662763#activity_comment_2868935) Stems smooth. (from https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/70818463) Glabrous stems. (from https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/71724439) |
| 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 |
