WorldFloraDB - Aneilema hockii

Characteristics

Tufted perennial with erect to ascending or straggling shoots 0.3-1.2 m tall. Roots thick, fleshy. Leaves spirally arranged, leaf-blades sessile or petiolate, usually linear-lanceolate to lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, (30-)50-150(-245) x (3-)10-35(-48) mm, apex usually acuminate. Inflorescences mostly terminal, (25-)40-105 x 35-100(-120) mm, with 4-11 (-16) mostly opposite or whorled cincinni. Flowers perfect and staminate, (15-)20-40 mm wide; paired petals bluish purple, mostly c. 15 x 15 mm; lateral stamen filaments c. 15-30 mm long, glabrous; style c. 15-25 mm long. Capsules oblong to oblong-elliptic, bilocular, 7-13 x 4-5.5 mm, locules 3-5-seeded. Seeds transversely rectancular to trapezoidal or ovate, 1.5-3.25 x 2.15-2.85 mm, testa shallowly scrobiculate to slightly rugose.

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Tufted, perennial herb with erect to ascending or straggling shoots 0.3-1.2 m high. Leaf margins scabrid. Branches of inflorescence mostly subopposite or sub-verticillate. Fruiting pedicels erect. Capsules emarginate at apex. Flowers bluish purple.

Life form	perennial
Growth form	herb
Growth support	free-standing
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Sexuality	hermaphrodite
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Uses	medicinal
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