Agathosma divaricata Pillans

Species

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Characteristics

A low divaricately branched shrublet with puberulous branchlets. Leaves 3-6 mm long, opposite, ovate, subacute, rounded at the base, slightly concave and with minute hair-tipped tubercles above, slightly revolute at the margin, with large glands beneath at the margin, with hair-tipped tubercles and large glands on a prominent nerve, elsewhere glabrous and almost smooth. Flowers solitary or in pairs at the ends of the branchlets. Peduncles 0.8-1 cm long, pubescent, ebracteolate. Sepals 1.5-1.75 mm long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, rounded-convex beneath, pubescent. Petals 5 mm long, oblong-lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, cuneate at the base, glabrous. Stamens glabrous. Staminodes 2.5 mm long, linear, concave above, with a conical gland at the apex, glabrous. Ovary glabrous, or hispid on the upper half, with 5 carpels bearing rotund processes. Style glabrous.
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Single-stemmed, rounded shrublet to 30 cm, branching profusely at ground level, strongly unpleasantly scented. Flowers 1-4, terminal, solitary or paired, white, pink or purple with darker midline. Fruits (3)4(5)-chambered.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
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Distribution

Agathosma divaricata world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:770915-1
WFO ID wfo-0000523417
COL ID 6637J
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Synonyms

Agathosma divaricata