Tetragonia decumbens
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Habit
19 Sep 2013
| Family: | Aizoaceae |
| Full name: | Tetragonia decumbens Mill. |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Duinespinasie, Kinkelbossie |
| English common name(s): | Dune spinach, Sea spinach |
| Synonym(s): | Aizoon perfoliatum L.f. Tetragonia obovata Haw. Tetragonia perfoliata (L.f.) Druce Tetragonia tetrapteris Haw. Tetragonia zeyheri Fenzl |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Suffrutescent, decumbent, branches woody at the base, annual ones elongate, simple or with short branchlets at the base, rough from papulæ; leaves broad-ovate, cuneate, subsessile, or ovate, rhomboid-ovate or oblong, attenuated in a short, broad petiole, superior ones spathulate-oblong, flat; flowers axillary, 3–5, aggregated, on unequal pedicels, disposed in a very long, interrupted-leafy raceme; leafy bracts ovate or spathulate; fruit 6–9 lines long, suborbicular, 4–5-winged, papulose-leprose, wings often alternate with tubercles. Bi-triennial, 1–1.5 foot high, primary branches as thick as a goose's quill, with or without axillary fasciculate branchlets, leaves broadly-petiolate, rotundate. (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 |
