Audouinia laevis (Pillans) A.V.Hall

Species

Angiosperms > Bruniales > Bruniaceae > Audouinia

Characteristics

About 50 cm high. Branchlets very minutely pubescent. Leaves 20-4 mm long, linear, obtuse, slightly widened at the base, slightly incurved above the middle, rather acutely convex on both surfaces, very minutely ciliolate on the margins, smooth and glabrous elsewhere. Pedicels 0-5 mm long. Bracteoles about 8, closely imbricate, 1-5 mm long, ovate-lanceolate, subacute, ciliate, bluntly nervose-carinate. Calyx-tube rotund, longitudinally sulcate: calyx-lobes 1-5 mm long, nervose-carinate, ciliate. Petals 2-5 mm long, white, consisting of an oblong claw widening upwards into an ovate obtuse or acute lamina Anthers 0-75 mm long, lanceolate-oblong, obtuse. Stylar column 0-5 mm long, broad-based: stigmas distinct. Fruit unknown.
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Like A. laxa but calyx longitudinally furrowed and glabrous, floral receptacle without fleshy warts.
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Distribution

Audouinia laevis world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77114340-1
WFO ID wfo-0000748639
COL ID JPP9
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Synonyms

Tittmannia laevis Audouinia laevis