Agathosma tabularis Sond.

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Rutaceae > Agathosma

Characteristics

Branchlets densely puberulous. Leaves 4.5-6 mm long, alternate, erect-spreading, spreading or sometimes reflexed, ovate-lanceolate or ovate, obtuse, rounded or subcordate at the base, slightly convex above, bluntly serrate, glabrous, with an evident primary nerve and sometimes secondary nerves beneath, with 12-14 large glands confined to the margin. Flowers 1-3 together in the axils of the upper leaves. Peduncles 5-6 mm long, glabrous, subtended by 2 oblanceolate ciliolate bracteoles. Calyx truncate at the base, glabrous. Sepals 1.5 mm long, lanceolate-oblong, obtuse, convex beneath, with 2 rows of large glands. Petals 4.5 mm long, glabrous; blade elliptic-or obovate-oblong, very obtuse, cuneate at the base, slightly concave above; claw half as long, linear. Stamens glabrous. Staminodes 1.5 mm long, narrowly linear, subacute, sparsely ciliate, eglandular. Disk conspicuously crenate, fleshy. Ovary glabrous, distinctly raised on a stout eglandular stipe, with 4 carpels closely studded with glands on the outer face, and bearing oblong, obtuse smooth processes. Style glabrous, recurved.
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Slender, single-stemmed shrub to over 10 m. Leaves when crushed at first stinking, then pleasingly lemon-scented. Flowers axillary, drab pale mauve. Fruits 4-chambered.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
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Distribution

Agathosma tabularis world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:771107-1
WFO ID wfo-0000523641
COL ID 5TR8F
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Synonyms

Hartogia tabularis Agathosma tabularis Barosma pulchella var. tabularis