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Asclepias brevicuspis (E.Mey.) Schltr.

Species

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Characteristics

Perennial, geophytic herb, 150-340 mm long. Stems 1-8. Leaves spreading, ascending, linear to lanceolate, 15-100 x 0.3-5.5 mm, base cuneate to hastate, apex acuminate; shortly petiolate. Inflorescences corymbose umbellate, 6-8-flowered; peduncle 17-67 mm long. Flowers 6-15 x 9-17 mm, green to cream-coloured, mauve-tinged. Corolla spreading and semi-reflexed; lobes ovate, 6.5-10.4 x 2.5-4.6 mm. Staminal column 3.8-6.5 mm high, not stipitate. Corona with claw-like lobes, 4.5-8.4 mm high, 1.2-2.8 mm wide, upper proximal end blunt and shoulder-like, upper distal end narrowed into a short, erect, dentate tip, upper margin level with style-stigma-head. Anther: appendage ovate, incumbent on style-stigma-head. Flowering time Dec.?
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Perennial herb, 150-300 mm tall. Leaves 9-10 times as long as broad, linear. Corolla lobes spreading, canescent inside. Corona lobes erect, shorter than to slightly exceeding staminal column, cucullate part of corona lobes 2-3 times as long as broad. Flowers dirty white to green or mauve; corona green.
A herb.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.08 - 0.15
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Environment

It is a subtropical plant.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses -
Edible leaves
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

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

Asclepias brevicuspis world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:94140-1
WFO ID wfo-0000551156
COL ID H69X
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Asclepias brevicuspis Lagarinthus brevicuspis Gomphocarpus brevicuspis
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