Agathosma puberula (Steud.) Fourc.

Species

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Characteristics

A much branched shrub usually 1-1.5 m high, with puberulous branchlets. Leaves 0.8-2 cm long, alternate, erect-spreading, linear-or oblong-lanceolate, elliptic-or oblanceolate-oblong, mucronate, tapering shortly at the base, slightly convex or flat above, somewhat thickened and gland-crenate at the margin, puberulous or glabrous, with the nerve often raised beneath, and with many glands in rows or scattered. Flowers in terminal clusters. Peduncles 5-7 mm long, puberulous, ebracteolate. Sepals 2.5-4 mm long, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, often attenuate, obtusely keeled, puberulous or glabrous except for minute cilia. Petals 4-5 mm long, elliptic, very obtuse, cuneate and usually puberulous above at the base, often with several large glands beneath. Stamens glabrous. Staminodes 1.5 mm long, linear-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, truncate, emarginate, with a large gland behind the apex, flat or slightly concave and puberulous above. Ovary glabrous, or pubescent on the apex, with 3 or rarely 4 carpels bearing oblong glabrous or puberulous processes. Style glabrous.
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Shrub, up to 1.5 m high. Leaves alternate, simple, somewhat thickened and gland-crenate at margins, gland-dotted beneath. Flowers in terminal clusters, white with red dots; bracteoles absent. Calyx 5-parted, 2.5-4.0 mm long. Petals 5, hypogynous, imbricate, usually gland-dotted on lower surface. Staminodes opposite to petals, petaloid, with gland behind apex, puberulous above. Disc cupular. Ovary superior, 3(4)-carpellate, with processes. Fruit a capsule, with 1-4 chambers, inner and outer walls separating at maturity. Flowering time Mar.-Oct.
Single-stemmed, densely leafy shrub to 3 m, acrid-herb-or sulphur-scented. Leaves spine-tipped. Flowers in lax, terminal clusters, white, red-spotted. Fruits 3(4)-chambered.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 1.25 - 1.5
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Soil texture 5-6
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Usage

Uses medicinal
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Distribution

Agathosma puberula world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:771052-1
WFO ID wfo-0000523578
COL ID 65R97
BDTFX ID -
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Synonyms

Agathosma barosmoides Agathosma gnidioides Hartogia barosmoides Agathosma puberula Barosma gnidioides Barosma mucronata Diosma dubia Diosma gnidioides Diosma puberula Hartogia puberula