Adenandra marginata Roem. & Schult.

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Rutaceae > Adenandra

Characteristics

A slender, 10-80(-130) cm high shrublet, ascending to erect or rarely with a sprawling habit. Leaves patent to erecto-patent, not imbricated; blade lanceolate to narrowly cordate or rarely oblong, 3.5-11 x 1-7 mm, acute or mucronate, with more or less revolute margins, usually eglandular or nearly so. Flowers long-pedicellate in 2-15-flowered umbels or subumbellate corymbs. Bracteoles small, often deciduous. Calyx segments ovate to triangular or lanceolate, c. 2-4.6 mm long. Petals suffused with red outside, porcelain-white inside; limb variable in shape, 3.5-8.5 x 2.5-6.5 mm. Staminodes patently pilose, tipped by a capitate gland. Anthers glabrous or sparsely pilose, tipped by a stipitate, capitate gland. Ovary usually glabrous, with or without stipitate glands; style recurved. Capsule much longer than the calyx.
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Slender, laxly branched, aromatic shrublet sometimes to 1.3 m. Leaves loosely spreading, oblanceolate to narrowly cordate or elliptic, margins revolute, usually without glands. Flowers 2-15 in loose umbels or umbellate corymbs, white, pink outside.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Soil texture 5-6
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Distribution

Adenandra marginata world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:770786-1
WFO ID wfo-0000519784
COL ID 9YWT
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Synonyms

Adenandra marginata Adenandra rosmarinifolia Diosma intermedia Diosma marginata Diosma rosmarinifolia Eriostemon marginatus Glandulifolia marginata Adenandra intermedia Adenandra marginata var. angusta Adenandra marginata subsp. marginata

Lower taxons

Adenandra marginata subsp. humilis Adenandra marginata subsp. serpyllacea Adenandra marginata subsp. mucronata