Wellstedia dinteri gracilior
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Habit (dry season)
22 Mar 2013
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Habit (dry season)
22 Mar 2013
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Habit (dry season)
22 Mar 2013
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Habit (dry season)
04 Apr 2015
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Dried branch
04 Apr 2015
| Family: | Boraginaceae |
| Full name: | Wellstedia dinteri subsp. gracilior (D.R.Hunt) Retief & A.E.van Wyk (2008) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | - |
| English common name(s): | - |
| Synonym(s): | Wellstedia dinteri var. gracilior D.R.Hunt |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Wellstedia dinteri Pilg.: Dwarf shrubs, densely pubescent with trichomes appressed; trichome complement consists of rigid setae with prominent multicellular bases or fine setae with undeveloped bases. Branches decumbent or ascending. Leaves spirally arranged; blade narrowly obovate to spathulate, decurrent, often upper part ('blade') forms an abscission, with lower part ('petiole) persistent, becoming spine-like. Flowers small, regular, in dense, scorpioid cymes or solitary, well separated on lax branches. Calyx deeply 4-lobed. Corolla pink or white, with a short, campanulate tube, slightly constricted at throat, membranous with 4 ovate lobes ± as long as tube or shorter. Stamens 4, borne on corolla throat, shorter than corolla lobes; filaments linear, exserted; anthers subglobose, ± as long as filaments, 2-locular. dehiscing introrsely. Disc absent. Ovary' bilocular, compressed, densely hairy, with a single ovule in each loculus; style terminal, bifid at apex; stigmas small, capitate. Fruit a capsule, variously pubescent, loculicidally dehiscent. Seeds ± triangular, truncate and pitted above with a circle of long, rigid trichomes in upper part below pitted area, acute and shortly pubescent below. (from The genus Wellstedia (Boraginaceae: Wellstedioideae) in southern Africa (Retief & Van Wyk, 2008)) Wellstedia dinteri subsp. gracilior (D.R.Hunt) Retief & A.E.van Wyk (2008): Flowers and capsules well spaced on lax branchlets: leaves greyish white, 7-15 x 2.0-4.5 mm: leaf blade surface densely pubescent, with fine setae with undeveloped bases and scattered setae with multicellular base. (from The genus Wellstedia (Boraginaceae: Wellstedioideae) in southern Africa (Retief & Van Wyk, 2008)) |
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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 |
