Anchusa riparia Dc.

Species

Angiosperms > Boraginales > Boraginaceae > Anchusa

Characteristics

Herbaceous, 1-2 ft. high; stem erect, simple or sparingly branched, bearing scattered setae; lower leaves up to 6 in. long and 5 lin. wide, oblanceolate, long attenuate downwards, upper linear-lanceolate, up to 3 in. long and 4 lin. wide, sessile, acute or subobtuse, all with white bulbous-based hairs above, villous below; cymes racemose, usually forked, arranged in a terminal panicle up to 1 ft. long; bracts similar to the upper leaves but smaller; pedicels 1 lin. long; calyx 2 lin. long, campanulate, hispid; lobes 5, short, rounded; corolla 3 lin. long; scales in throat ciliate; nutlets rugose, granular.
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Perennial herb, with annual flowering stems up to 0.4 m high. Stems erect or decumbent; sparsely setose. Leaves with blade narrowly ovate, up to 90 x 9 mm, apex acute. Flowers: in scorpioid cymes; calyx not divided to base, lobed to not > 2/3, lobes deltoid with acute or obtuse apices accrescent; corolla up to 7 mm in diameter, tube 3-4 mm long, white, lobes 1-2 mm long, bright blue, fornices white; Sep.-Mar. Fruit a nutlet, ± 3 mm long, rugose, tuberculate, verrucose.
Perennial herb, with annual flowering stems up to 0.4 m high. Stems erect or decumbent, sparingly setose. Leaves with blade narrowly ovate, up to 90 x 9 mm, apex acute. Flowers in scorpioid cymes. Calyx not divided to base, accrescent, inflated in fruit. Corolla up to 7 mm in diam.; tube 3-4 mm long, white; lobes 1-2 mm long, bright blue, fornices white. Flowering time Sept.-Mar. Fruit of ± 3 mm long nutlets, rugose, tuberculate, verrucose.
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Growth form herb
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.4
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Soil humidity 1-5
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Usage

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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 7 - 30
Germination temperacture (C°) 21
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Distribution

Anchusa riparia world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:113346-1
WFO ID wfo-0000533755
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Synonyms

Anchusa riparia