Bergia suffruticosa Fenzl

Species

Angiosperms > Malpighiales > Elatinaceae > Bergia

Characteristics

Aromatic woody-based spreading shrublet with numerous opposite branchlets, the erect shoots 5–20(–60) cm. tall; plant at first densely shortly hispid, the older stems at length almost glabrous with the bark papery and peeling in rust-coloured flakes.. Leaves opposite or pseudo-verticillate, usually rather thick, sessile or shortly petiolate; blade elliptic or oblanceolate, 0.2–3 cm. long, 0.1–1 cm. wide, obtuse to acute at the apex, cuneate, crenate or serrate, usually markedly so, margins sometimes revolute, mostly densely scabrid-pubescent, sometimes glandular; petiole 0–3 mm. long; stipules linear or lanceolate, 1.5–2.5 mm. long, mostly not membranous, pubescent.. Flowers 5-merous, solitary or in 2–8-flowered fascicles; pedicels 1–5 mm. long, pubescent.. Sepals ovate, 2.5–5 mm. long, acute to distinctly acuminate, keeled, pubescent, usually with membranous margins.. Petals obovate-oblong, ± equalling the sepals, 3–4 mm. long, 1.2–2 mm. wide, obtuse, white to pinkish-mauve, thin.. Stamens 10, nearly equal or alternately shorter, those opposite the sepals often dilated below.. Ovary ovoid, 5-sulcate; style 1–1.2 mm. long.. Capsule pinkish, ovoid, 2 mm. long.. Seeds oblong-ellipsoid, dark brown to black, shining, 0.5–0.6 mm. long, faintly reticulate.. Fig. 1/9, p. 2.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.05 - 0.2
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses animal food environmental use invertebrate food material medicinal non-vertebrate poison poison
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Therapeutic use Antidote(Scorpion) (unspecified), Medicine (unspecified)
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Cultivation

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Distribution

Bergia suffruticosa world distribution map, present in Anguilla, Burkina Faso, Congo, Egypt, India, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan, and Chad

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:324650-1
WFO ID wfo-0000564347
COL ID LKVN
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Synonyms

Bergia odorata Bergia suffruticosa Lancretia suffruticosa