Asclepias aurea (Schltr.) Schltr.

Species

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Characteristics

Perennial, geophytic herb, 145-520 mm high. Stems 1(-6). Leaves often ascending, linear, 6-85 x 0.8-1.5 mm, base cuneate, apex acuminate, almost pungent, margins strongly revolute; apetiolate. Inflorescences 4(-8)-flowered; peduncles 44-140 mm long. Flowers 4-11 mm wide, yellow or white, tinted purple. Corolla spreading reflexed; lobes ovate to lanceolate, 3.0-5.4 x 1.7-2.0 mm, lower surface scabrid. Staminal column 2.0-2.5 mm high, not stipitate. Corona: lobes cymbiform, 1.6-2.2 mm long, upper proximal appendages dentate, folded towards each other, distal end blunt, proximal end of upper margin level with style-stigma-head, distal end just above it. Pollinia hemispherical. Anther: appendage ovate, 0.3-0.8 x 0.6-0.9 mm, incumbent on style-stigma-head.
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Perennial herb, 140-600 mm high. Stems erect. Leaves scabrid, with blade linear, 9-10 x as long as broad, glabrous. Flowers: in axillary and terminal 4(5-8)-flowered umbels; peduncles 50-148 mm long; pollinia hemispherical; corona white, yellow or purple with white sides; corolla with lobes reflexed or spreading, canescent inside, white, yellow or orange; Aug.-May.
A slender herb. It is erect and has few branches. It grows 55 cm high. It grows each year from a rootstock that lasts from year to year. The leaves are narrow. They are 8 cm long. The edges are rolled under. There are 3-7 flowers in a group. They are yellow. The outer lobes taper to a long point.
Perennial herb, 145-500 mm tall. Leaves 9-10 times as long as broad, linear, glabrous. Umbels axillary and terminal, 4-flowered, rarely 5-8. Peduncles 44-140 mm long. Corolla lobes reflexed or spreading, canescent inside. Flowers yellow; corona white, yellow or purple with white sides.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.15 - 0.54
Root system -
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Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

It is a tropical plant. It grows in dry grassland. It grows between 1,000-2,000 m above sea level.
Light -
Soil humidity 1-3
Soil texture -
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses medicinal
Edible leaves roots
Therapeutic use Emetic (unspecified), Root (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) 30 - 90
Germination temperacture (C°) 10 - 23
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment stratification
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Distribution

Asclepias aurea world distribution map, present in Angola, Botswana, Congo, Lesotho, Namibia, eSwatini, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:94121-1
WFO ID wfo-0000551133
COL ID 683XW
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Asclepias aurea Asclepias radiata Aidomene parvula Gomphocarpus aureus Gomphocarpus schizoglossoides Asclepias aurea var. vittata Schizoglossum pedunculatum Asclepias aurea var. brevicuspis