Agathosma gnidiflora Dümmer

Species

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Characteristics

Branchlets pubescent. Leaves 4-6 mm long, alternate, crowded, ascending, slightly incurved, lanceolate-linear, obtuse or subacute, rounded or somewhat cuneate at the base, deeply concave, smooth and glabrous above, with a prominent keel, gland-scaberulous and strigose beneath. Flowers in terminal clusters. Peduncles 4-5 mm long, sometimes sparsely pilose, with minute stalked glands, with bracteoles on the lower half. Sepals 2.5 mm long, lanceolate, subacute, amply ciliate, keeled and gland-scaberulous beneath. Petals 4.5 mm long; blade widely ovate, very obtuse, concave in the upper half; claw twice as long, slender, sparsely pilose-ciliate. Stamens with sparsely pubescent filaments. Staminodes 4 mm long, narrowly linear, acute, tipped with a large rotund gland, long-tapering towards the base, pilose except at the base and apex. Ovary densely pilose, with 3 carpels bearing rotund pilose processes. Style densely pilose.
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Much-branched shrublet to 30 cm. Flowers in dense, terminal clusters, white. Fruits 3-chambered.
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Distribution

Agathosma gnidiflora world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:770949-1
WFO ID wfo-0000523458
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Synonyms

Agathosma gnidiflora