Aplanodes doidgeana Marais

Species

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Characteristics

Perennial branched herbs up to 75 cm high. Stems thinly to densely puberulous with irregularly branched hairs; some hairs longer, less branched to simple. Leaves simple, densely puberulous with branched hairs, the lower surface usually with longer, less branched hairs, petiolate, the petiole slightly dilated at the base; basal leaves ovate-circular or reniform-circular, cordate at the base, obtuse, crenate, crowded, rosulate but dying off early; lower stem leaves shallowly cordate, the upper cuneate at the base, obtuse to acute, dentate to sharply and irregularly or doubly serrate, ovate-oblong to ovate. Racemes dense in flower, lax in fruit; rhachis puberulous. Fruiting pedicels 1-1.7 cm long, slender, widely recurved-spreading, puberulous. Sepals 3.5-5 mm long, puberulous, membranous-margined; outer 2 narrowly oblong, ± cucullate, horn-tipped; inner 2 ovate, slightly saccate. Petals 6-9.5 mm long, 2.5-4.5 mm broad, obovate-cuneate, clawed, shallowly emarginate. Filaments 2.5-3.5 mm and 3.5-5 mm long; long ones flattened at the base; short ones thickened at the base. Anthers 1.5-1.7 mm long. Ovary linear-oblong, glabrous or with coarse hairs on the valves; ovules 6-10 per locule. Siliquae 3.5-5 cm long, 2.5 mm broad, linear; valves 1-nerved, net-veined; style 4-6 mm long, stout; stigma capitate, shallowly 2-lobed. Seeds 3.5 x 2.3 mm, broadly oval, winged.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.75
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Distribution

Aplanodes doidgeana world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:277926-1
WFO ID wfo-0000540748
COL ID FNLW
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Synonyms

Aplanodes doidgeana