WorldFloraDB - Asclepias macropus

Characteristics

Perennial, geophytic, decumbent herb, 150-400 mm long. Stems 4 or 5 radiating from tuber. Leaves spreading, ovate to elliptic, 25-65 x 22-37 mm, base round, apex acute, margins flat and slightly thickened; petioles 4.5-8.0 mm long. Inflorescences solitary and terminal, globose, erect, 12-30-flowered; peduncle 75-110 mm long. Flowers mauve, almost chocolate or burgundy. Corolla reflexed; lobes oblong-ovate, 7.8-8.0 x ± 4.5 mm; staminal column ± 2.5 mm, stipitate. Corona yellow-or dark red, cupulate, upper proximal edge extended into long dentate/subulate appendages projecting over edge of style-stigma-head, upper margin forming a long acuminate point that greatly overtops style-stigma-head. Anther suborbicular incumbent on style-stigma-head. Flowering time Jan.? Fruit obliquely fusiform.

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Perennial herb. Stems decumbent. Leaves scabrid, with blade 20-35 mm wide, rounded or cordate at base, scabrous or subhispid. Flowers: in solitary, terminal, usually > 20-flowered umbels, 15-32 mm wide; peduncles 80-150 mm long; corona lobes 45-50 mm long, corona yellow, with back and basal part brownish purple; corolla lobes 7-8 mm long, reflexed, with upcurved tips glabrous, yellowish green with purple-brown veins at tips; Oct.-Mar., mainly Jan., Feb.

Decumbent, perennial herb. Leaves 6-7 times as long as broad, ovate, ovate-oblong, rounded or cordate at base, scabrous or subhispid. Umbels solitary, terminal, 12-30-flowered, peduncles 80-150 mm long. Corolla lobes reflexed with upcurved tips, glabrous. Corona lobes 4.5-5.0 mm long. Flowers yellowish green with purple-brown veins at tips; corona yellow with back and basal part brownish purple.

Life form	perennial
Growth form	herb
Growth support	free-standing
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Sexuality	hermaphrodite
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Cultivation

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

Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:94431-1
WFO ID	wfo-0000551504
COL ID	H6HT
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Synonyms

Asclepias macropus Gomphocarpus macropus

WorldFloraDB 2024

Asclepias macropus (Schltr.) Schltr.

Species