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Asclepias schlechteri (K.Schum.) N.E.Br.

Species

Angiosperms > Gentianales > Apocynaceae > Asclepias

Characteristics

Perennial, geophytic herb, 535-550 mm high. Leaves linear, sometimes slightly curved, 45-95 x 1-3 mm, base cuneate. Inflorescences 4-8-flowered; peduncle 4-20 mm long. Flowers white to green, sometimes tinted with purple; corolla lobes spreading-erect, ± 10 x 4.0-6.5 mm, lower surface and margins with long setose to villous hairs; staminal column ± 1.8 mm high, stipitate by 1.0-1.5 mm long. Corona: lobes 7.7-9.4 mm high, ± 3.5 mm wide, with upper distal end extended into long, dentate-filiform appendage 4.8-6.0 mm high, upper proximal end extended into a shorter fin-like appendage, 0.9-1.2 mm protruding over style-stigma-head, upper margin cleft. Anther: appendage ligulate, 0.8-0.9 mm long.
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Stem about 2 ft. high, 1 lin. thick at the base, simple, glabrous; leaves sessile, 2-4 3/4 in. long, 1 lin. broad, linear, scabrous on the revolute margins, otherwise glabrous; umbels lateral at the nodes, pedunculate, several-flowered; peduncles 1-1 1/6 in. long; pedicels 4 1/2 lin. long; sepals 2 lin. long, subulate, puberulous; corolla-lobes about 1/2 in. long, oblong, obtuse, fimbriolate on the upper part, clear green; corona-lobes much overtopping the style-apex, 3 1/2 lin. long, subulate, with the apex inflexed, dark purple red, with a pair of acute white wings on the inner face; staminal column 1 1/4-1 1/2 lin. long.
A shrub. It grows 1.5 m tall. The leaves are long and tapering. they are 20 cm long by 1 cm wide.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.61
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Flower color
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

It is a subtropical plant.
Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture 5-6
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

Usage

Uses -
Edible leaves
Therapeutic use -
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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Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Productivity -

Distribution

Asclepias schlechteri world distribution map, present in eSwatini and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:94632-1
WFO ID wfo-0000551750
COL ID H6PF
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Asclepias schlechteri Gomphocarpus schlechteri
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