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Berula repanda (Hiern) Spalik & S.R.Downie

Species

Angiosperms > Apiales > Apiaceae > Berula

Characteristics

Robust, rhizomatous, perennial herb (hydrophyte), up to 1.5 m high, glabrous. Leaves elongate, once-pinnate, with pinnae appearing finely and regularly serrate on margins; lowest pinnae smaller than others. Teeth directed toward leaflet apex, mostly slightly overlapping. Flowers in compound, bracteate umbels; involucre and involucel conspicuous, incised. Calyx with 5 small teeth. Petals yellowish (or white?). Flowering time Jan.-Apr. Fruit laterally flattened or contracted, subdidymous; mericarps with 5 ridges; vittae 6, 4 in furrows, 2 on face.
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Perennial herb. Flowering stems up to 1.5 m high; robust, ribbed, leafy, glabrous. Leaves compound; leaflets opposite, blade narrowly ovate, apex acute, margins with regular serrations, teeth curved inwards, often slightly overlapping. Flowers: involucral bracts present; yellowish to greenish white; Dec.-Mar. Fruit laterally flattened, ridged.
Perennial herb, up to 1.5 m high, glabrous. Leaflet margins with regular serrations. Inflorescence obviously leafy; bracts present. Fruit not strongly dorsiventrally compressed. Flowers yellowish to greenish white.
Distinguished from B. thunbergii by the evenly denticulate leaflet margins with incurved, white, slightly overlapping teeth and the widely spaced, relatively small vittae.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 1.5
Root system rhizome
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Environment

Light -
Soil humidity 6-12
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

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Cultivation

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Distribution

Berula repanda world distribution map, present in Angola, Cameroon, Lesotho, Mozambique, Malawi, eSwatini, Tanzania, United Republic of, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77101367-1
WFO ID wfo-0000743403
COL ID LMZZ
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Sium repandum Berula repanda
WorldFloraDB 2024