Agathosma barnesiae Compton

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Rutaceae > Agathosma

Characteristics

Branchlets minutely puberulous. Leaves 5-9 mm long, alternate, erect-standing, often slightly incurved, oblong-elliptic, ovate or lanceolate-oblong, obtuse, apiculate, shortly cuneate, rounded or subcordate at the base, concave and minutely puberulous above, thickened and revolute at the margin, with glands only at the revolute margin, glabrous or minutely puberulous beneath. Flowers in terminal clusters. Peduncles 1-1.5 mm long, stout, glabrous, ebracteolate. Sepals 2.5-3 mm long, imbricate, apiculate, glabrous or ± ciliate, glandular on the upper half; the outer widely obovate, rotund or orbicular, obtuse; the inner obovate-oblong or elliptic. Petals 4-5 mm long, oblanceolate or oblong-oblanceolate, obtuse, sometimes bluntly apiculate, glabrous or ciliate. Stamens glabrous. Staminodes 3-3.5 mm long, lanceolate, cuneate at the base, membranous, ciliate, bilobed at the apex, with the nerve projecting into the sinus and bearing an apical gland. Disk with a narrow free margin. Ovary coarsely tubercled, with 5 carpels bearing conical-oblong processes. Style glabrous. Fruit hispid on the apex.
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Resprouting, dwarf shrub sometimes to 1 m, lemon-or turpentine-scented. Flowers in dense heads, white. Fruits 5-chambered.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
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Soil texture 5-8
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Distribution

Agathosma barnesiae world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:770857-1
WFO ID wfo-0000523345
COL ID 662W9
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Synonyms

Agathosma barnesiae