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Adenocline pauciflora Turcz.

Species

Angiosperms > Malpighiales > Euphorbiaceae > Adenocline

Characteristics

Annual or perennial herb, 0.15-0.50 m high; rootstock woody; laxly branching and filiform ascending stems. Leaves alternate, membranous, ovate to linear-lanceolate, acute, base rounded or cuneate, margins sharply serrate or shallowly crenate. Male flowers subsessile in leaf-opposed or axillary racemes. Female flowers in leaf-opposed racemes, solitary; pedicels abruptly reflexed; ovary glabrous. Flowering time Sept.-Jan. Fruit a 3-lobed capsule, 2 mm wide, smooth; calyx-segments in both sexes 5. Seeds ovoid-globose.
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Annual, occasionally perennial herb, up to 0.5 m high. Leaves alternate, sessile, sometimes petiolate in lower part of plant; blade narrowly ovate, 8-45 x 1-16 mm, apex acute, base cuneate to rounded, margins shallowly toothed; stipules prominent. Flowers: yellowish green; Oct.-Dec.
Dioecious perennial from woody rootstock, 10-30 cm. Leaves ovate to linear-lanceolate, toothed. Male flowers subsessile in leaf-opposed or axillary racemes, females in leaf-opposed racemes.
Annual herb, up to 300 mm tall. Leaves alternate, blade narrowly ovate, 8-45 x 1-16 mm, margin toothed. Flowers yellowish green.
Life form
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality dioecy
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Mature height (meter) 0.3 - 0.5
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Soil humidity 1-3
Soil texture 4-7
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Distribution

Adenocline pauciflora world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:338163-1
WFO ID wfo-0000767995
COL ID 9ZHM
BDTFX ID -
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Synonyms

Adenocline pauciflora Adenocline pauciflora var. humilis

Lower taxons

Adenocline pauciflora var. bupleuroides Adenocline pauciflora var. ovalifolia Adenocline pauciflora var. pauciflora Adenocline pauciflora var. rotundifolia Adenocline pauciflora var. sessilifolia Adenocline pauciflora var. stricta Adenocline pauciflora var. tenella Adenocline pauciflora var. transiens
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