Agathosma decurrens Pillans

Species

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Characteristics

Shrublet about 25 cm high, with puberulous branchlets. Leaves mostly 0.8-1 cm long, alternate or rarely opposite, erect-spreading, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, widely cuneate or rounded at the base, concave above up the middle, revolute and with large glands at the margin, glabrous, eglandular and with a prominent nerve beneath. Flowers terminal, 1 or 2 together. Peduncles 2 mm long, glabrous, subtended by linear bracteoles 2.5-3 mm long. Sepals 4.5-5 mm long, lanceolate, obtuse, thickened at the apex, hyaline at the lower half of the margin, obtusely convex, with glands widely spaced in 2 rows. Petals 5-6 mm long, elliptic or obovate-elliptic, very obtuse, tapering in the lower half to a wide base, slightly concave above. Stamens glabrous. Staminodes 2.5 mm long, oblanceolate, widely based, slightly concave above, glabrous, with a conical gland at the apex. Disk crenulate. Ovary glabrous with 5 carpels bearing rotund or transversely oblong fleshy processes shortly decurrent on the backs of the carpels. Style glabrous.
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Spreading shrublet to 25 cm. Flowers axillary, solitary or in lax clusters, white to pale pink with long, narrow sepals. Fruits 5-chambered.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.25
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Distribution

Agathosma decurrens world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:770907-1
WFO ID wfo-0000523408
COL ID 65R7D
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Synonyms

Agathosma decurrens