Agathosma craspedota E.Mey. ex Sond.

Species

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Characteristics

Branchlets puberulous. Leaves 0.6-1.5 cm long, alternate, erect-spreading, obovate-oblanceolate, obovate-elliptic or obovate, obtuse or subacute, cuneate or rounded at the base, slightly convex and glabrous or puberulous above, with a thickened and slightly revolute margin, usually crenulate at the margin, glabrous, or puberulous and with scattered glands beneath, with a slightly raised nerve. Flowers in terminal clusters or a few together in the axils of the upper leaves. Peduncles 6-9 mm long, glabrous or puberulous, often with stalked glands, subtended by bracteoles. Calyx widely rounded or truncate at the base; tube widely cyathiform; sepals 2.5-4 mm long, reflexed, deltoid-ovate; obtuse, slightly concave above near the apex, glabrous or ± puberulous beneath, sometimes with stalked glands. Petals 4.5-6 mm long, elliptic, obtuse, cuneate at the base, concave above near the apex, puberulous at the base. Stamens glabrous. Staminodes 2-2.5 mm long, oblanceolate-oblong, widening slightly and emarginate at the apex, with a large stalked gland in the sinus, almost flat and pubescent above, ciliate. Ovary with stalked glands on the apex, with 5 carpels bearing ± clavate processes often retuse and setose at the apex. Style striate, glabrous.
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Single-stemmed, dense, rounded shrublet to 1 m. Flowers profuse, in lax, terminal clusters, white. Fruits 5-chambered, ± enclosed in calyx.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
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Distribution

Agathosma craspedota world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:770898-1
WFO ID wfo-0000523393
COL ID 65QVG
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Synonyms

Agathosma denticulata Agathosma utilis Hartogia craspedata Agathosma craspedota Agathosma craspedota var. eglandulosa