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Family: | Zygophyllaceae |
Full name: | Zygophyllum decumbens Delile |
ID status: | Fairly certain |
Afrikaans common name(s): | - |
English common name(s): | - |
Synonym(s): | Tetraena decumbens (Delile) Beier & Thulin (for tropical + N Africa) |
Status: | Near-endemic |
Description: | Much branching, decumbent, woody below, glabrous. Leaves unijugate, fleshy; leaflets plane, obovate to oblanceolate, very obtuse, 0.25–0.5 in. long; petioles equalling or slightly exceeding the leaflets. Flowers numerous. Peduncles 0.25–0.5 in., at length deflexed. Sepals obovate, cucullate, nearly equalling the oblong-spathulate white petals. Staminal scales deeply 2-fid with acute teeth. Capsule deeply 5-lobed, turbinate; apex entire, the carpels coherent to the extremity of the fruit, 2–3 lines long, 2–3 lines broad. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora of Tropical Africa) Shrublet with decumbent branches, glabrous or glandular, glaucous. Leaves 2-foliolate; leaflets obovate, flat, up to c. 15 x 10 mm; petiole c. 4–6 mm long; stipules membranous, narrowly triangular, fringed. Flowers in loose several-flowered cymes. Sepals c. 2 mm long. Petals white, c. 4 mm long. Filament scale oblong, bipartite. Ovary glabrous; style c. 2 mm long. Capsule obconical, deeply 5-parted, up to 10 mm long. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora Somalia) |
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 |
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