Agathosma pubigera Sond.

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Rutaceae > Agathosma

Characteristics

A low much branched shrub with puberulous branchlets. Leaves 5-8 mm long, alternate, erect-spreading, often slightly recurved, oblong, elliptic-oblong, oblanceolate or oblong-oblanceolate, acute, subacute or obtuse, rounded or shortly tapered at the base, entirely puberulous, concave above, obtusely keeled and with conspicuous glands beneath. Flowers in terminal clusters. Peduncles 2.5-6 mm long, puberulous, with bracteoles on the lower half. Sepals 1-1.5 mm long, oblong, ovate-lanceolate or ovate, obtuse or subacute, convex and puberulous beneath. Petals 4-5.5 mm long, glabrous; blade elliptic or obovate, very obtuse; claw about 1.5 times as long, narrowly linear. Stamens glabrous. Staminodes 3 mm long, lanceolate-linear, slightly concave above, pubescent above and beneath. Disk with deltoid teeth at the margin. Ovary puberulous, with one carpel without a process. Style sparsely pubescent on the lower half. Fruit elliptic, tubercled and hispid, with a clavate hispid process.
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Resprouting, glaucous, much-branched shrublet to 60 cm, slightly aromatic. Flowers in terminal clusters, white. Fruits 1-chambered.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
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Distribution

Agathosma pubigera world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:771057-1
WFO ID wfo-0000523584
COL ID 66397
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Synonyms

Agathosma decipiens Agathosma pubigera Hartogia pubigera