Capnophyllum macrocarpum Magee & B.-e.van Wyk

Species

Angiosperms > Apiales > Apiaceae > Capnophyllum

Characteristics

Sprawling herb, 0.04-0.08 m tall. Leaves 25-85 x 10-40 mm. Petioles 10-45 mm long, basal sheaths 5-8 mm x 2-3 mm. Ultimate leaflets ovate to broadly ovate, 9-12 x 8-10 mm, venation not visible; segments linear-oblong, 2-5 mm long, less than 1 mm broad, flat or subterete. Umbels with peduncle short, 3-8 mm long; involucral bracts 2 or 4, connate or free; rays 2 or 3, 7-35 mm long at anthesis; involucel bracteoles 4, connate; raylets 10 to 15.2-5 mm long at anthesis. Flowers with ovary tubercled; stylopodium very shortly conical to flat, sunken below the fruit apex; styles not lengthening as the fruit matures, 0.3-0.5 mm long, remaining erect or rarely becoming somewhat reflexed to just above the base of the stylopodium. Fruit broadly elliptic to broadly ovate, 8.5-9.0 x 4.5-5.5 mm; base obtuse or shallowly concave; apex obtuse to truncate; mericarps markedly concave on the commissural surface; median and lateral ribs prominent, flexuose, tubercled; marginal ribs prominently involute; secondary ribs absent; commissural vittae terminating some distance from the base of the stylopodium.
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Like C. africanum but fruit > 8.5 mm long, stylopodium very shortly conical to flat, sunken below fruit apex and umbel composed of 2 or 3 rays.
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Distribution

Capnophyllum macrocarpum world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77098210-1
WFO ID wfo-0000743482
COL ID QRBC
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Synonyms

Capnophyllum macrocarpum