Agathosma adenandriflora Schltr.

Species

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Characteristics

A shrublet with rigidly wiry, puberulous and ± pilose branchlets. Leaves 0.7-1.2 cm long, alternate, ovate, obovate, elliptic, ovate-lanceolate or sometimes subrotund in outline, obtuse, rounded at the base, slightly convex above, slightly revolute at the margin, coriaceous, minutely scabrid above and beneath, minutely puberulous above, sparsely pilose on the margin, sometimes villous above and beneath in the juvenile state. Flowers in terminal clusters. Peduncles 0.8-1.3 cm long, densely pilose, sometimes bearing stalked glands, subtended by widely obovate bracteoles. Sepals 4-8 mm long, oblong, widely oblong, lanceolate-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, acute or subacute, densely silky villous, often bearing stalked glands. Petals 0.9-1.1 cm long, widely oblanceolate, very obtuse, sometimes sparsely pubescent above, pubescent beneath. Stamens glabrous. Staminodes 4.5-5 mm long, linear, furrowed above, conspicuously nerved and pilose beneath, with a large crateriform gland at the apex. Ovary tubercled and setose or glabrous, bearing stalked glands on the apex, with 5 carpels furrowed and umbonate above. Style glabrous.
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Single-stemmed, rounded shrub to 1 m, broad-leaved. Flowers large, in small, lax clusters at branch tips, white to bright pink, pink beneath. Fruits 5-chambered, enclosed in calyx, lacking horns.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
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Soil texture 7-8
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Distribution

Agathosma adenandriflora world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:770839-1
WFO ID wfo-0000523325
COL ID 66386
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Synonyms

Agathosma adenandriflora Agathosma formosissima