Agathosma bicolor Dümmer

Species

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Characteristics

Branchlets ± silky-pilose. Leaves 0.5-1 cm long, alternate, erect-spreading, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, rounded at the base, concave and glabrous or silky-villous above, keeled and glabrous or villous beneath, usually long-ciliate, rough with minute tubercles above and beneath. Flowers in terminal clusters. Peduncles 0.75 mm long, sparsely puberulous, with linear ciliate bracteoles on the lower half. Sepals 1.5 mm long, oblong, obtuse, rounded-convex beneath, ciliate, often sparsely pubescent above. Petals 5 mm long; blade obovate, with a gland behind the apex; claw almost or quite 2.5 times as long, very slender, sparsely pilose below the middle. Stamens glabrous. Staminodes 3.5 mm long, narrowly linear in the upper half, filiform and pilose below. Ovary densely villous, with 3 or sometimes 2 carpels bearing elliptic-rotund processes. Style pilose on the lower half.
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Many-stemmed, sprawling, slender shrublet to 35 cm. Flowers in lax, terminal clusters, white with red buds. Fruits 3-chambered, shaggy.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
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Distribution

Agathosma bicolor world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:770864-1
WFO ID wfo-0000523354
COL ID 662VY
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Synonyms

Agathosma bicolor