Bergia glutinosa Dinter & Schulze-menz

Species

Angiosperms > Malpighiales > Elatinaceae > Bergia

Characteristics

Leaves opposite, sessile or subsessile, up to 4·5 × 0·8 cm., lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, apex acute, cuneate at the base, margin finely and irregularly serrate; stipules up to 4 mm. long, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, glandular.
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Very viscid glandular-pubescent perennial branching herb with spreading or ascending stems up to 30 cm. long and a long woody tap-root.
Sepals 4–5 mm. long, lanceolate, apex long-acuminate, margin hyaline and often pinkish, somewhat keeled, glandular outside.
Flowers in dense, axillary, subsessile, 2–5-flowered cymes; pedicels up to 6 mm. long, but mostly shorter, glandular.
Stamens 10, the outer 5 slightly longer than the inner and with filaments slightly more dilated towards the base.
Ovary ovoid, longitudinally 5-ribbed, many-ovulate; styles spreading, c. 1 mm. long; stigmas capitate.
Petals 2·5–3 mm. long, oblong-elliptic, mucronulate.
Ripe capsules and seeds not seen.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Distribution

Bergia glutinosa world distribution map, present in Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:324626-1
WFO ID wfo-0000564322
COL ID 68JRW
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Synonyms

Bergia glutinosa