Anisotoma cordifolia Fenzl

Species

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Characteristics

Perennial, creeping herb, 100-200 mm long. Stems many, slender, forking basally. Leaves pressed against ground, ovate to almost round, 6-32 x 6-25 mm, base cordate; petioles 6-13 mm long. Inflorescences subglobose; 3-9-flowered; sessile or peduncle up to 30 mm long. Flowers: corolla white or light yellow at base, upper half dark to orange-brown; pedicels 4-21 mm long. Corolla: tube 1.0-1.5 mm long; lobes narrowly oblong, 2-4 x 1 mm. Corona in 2 cycles; outer lobe rhomboid, 0.7-1.0 mm long, deeply bifid; inner lobe extended, subulate, ± 1.5 mm long, erect and then curved and connivent over style-stigma-head. Anther tipped with 2 or 3 minute hairs. Flowering time Nov.-Jan.
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Trailing perennial with rigid, swollen, brown roots; sap clear. Leaves opposite, cordate, hairy. Flowers in umbellate cymes, brown becoming yellow to white in tube.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Soil texture 7-8
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Distribution

Anisotoma cordifolia world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:93989-1
WFO ID wfo-0000537502
COL ID 66SWB
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Synonyms

Anisotomaria mollis Lophostephus mollis Anisotoma cordifolia Anisotoma mollis Cynanchum molle Cynoctonum molle