Agathosma minuta Schltdl.

Species

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Characteristics

Branchlets minutely pubescent. Leaves 1.5-2 mm long, alternate, spreading or reflexed, elliptic, ovate or sometimes oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, slightly concave or slightly convex above, with an inconspicuous nerve and minute impressed glands beneath, sometimes with 1-3 long hairs on the apex. Flowers in terminal clusters. Peduncles 2.5-4 mm long, glabrous or sparsely and minutely puberulous. Sepals 0.5-0.75 mm long, rotund, glabrous. Petals 2-5 mm long; blade elliptic or obovate, sometimes with a few hairs above on the nerve; claw half as long, narrowly linear, glabrous. Stamens glabrous. Staminodes 1 mm long, lanceolate, tapering towards the base, gland-tipped, pubescent above. Ovary with 3 carpels bearing rotund sometimes pilose processes. Style glabrous.
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Compact shrublet to 15 cm, coppicing from a woody caudex, liquorice-scented. Flowers small, in lax, terminal clusters, white or mauve. Fruits 3-chambered.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
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Distribution

Agathosma minuta world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:771002-1
WFO ID wfo-0000523519
COL ID 6637Q
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Synonyms

Agathosma minuta Hartogia minuta