Agathosma stokoei Pillans

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Rutaceae > Agathosma

Characteristics

A very much branched shrub usually about 30 cm high, with slender pilose branchlets. Leaves 4-8 mm long, alternate, erect-spreading, linear, obtuse, rounded at the base, concave and glabrous or pilose above, rounded and with scattered glands beneath, often pilose at the margin. Flowers in terminal clusters. Peduncles 3.5 mm long, pilose, with slender pilose bracteoles on the upper half. Sepals 1.5 mm long, ovate, obtuse, hyaline at the margin, rounded and pilose beneath. Petals 3.5 mm long, glabrous; blade obovate, very obtuse; claw half as long, linear. Stamens glabrous. Staminodes 2.5 mm long, linear, tapering to a slender base, glabrous, tipped with a round gland. Ovary pilose on the apex, with 2 carpels bearing widely oblong processes pilose on the apex. Style glabrous.
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Slender shrublet to 35 cm. Flowers in dense, woolly heads, mauve? Fruits 2-chambered.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.3
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Distribution

Agathosma stokoei world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:771101-1
WFO ID wfo-0000523634
COL ID 5TR8H
BDTFX ID -
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Synonyms

Agathosma stokoei