Diclis petiolaris Benth.

Species

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Scrophulariaceae > Diclis

Characteristics

Annual herb. Stems procumbent, 25-250 mm long, slender and wiry; glandular-pubescent with short stalked glands or subglabrous. Leaves opposite and alternate; blade wedge-shaped or shortly narrowed at base, margins entire or obscurely toothed; petioles up to 25 mm long. Flowers: axillary; spur broad; corolla white with yellow and purple spots in throat; Dec., Jan.
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Prostrate annual, 20-250 mm across, with short, stalked glands or subglabrous. Leaves long-petiolate, elliptic or spathulate, wedge-shaped at base, entire or obscurely toothed. Flowers axillary, long-pedicellate, bilabiate, corolla tube with a broad spur, white with yellow and purple spots in throat.
Leaves petiolate; lamina (7)15–27 x (5)8–18 mm., circular, elliptic to obovate, apex rounded, cuneate at base, entire or more rarely obscurely dentate but not coarsely so, glandular above and beneath to varying degrees; petiole 9–17 mm. long, stipitate-glandular.
Corolla white with purple markings at throat, 4.5–9(13) mm. long including spur; spur 1–2.5 mm. long, broad, subdeltoid; upper lip bilobed, lobes subdeltoid; lower lip 3-lobed, lobes broad, rounded.
Prostrate annual herb. Leaves opposite and alternate, wedge-shaped or shortly narrowed at base, petioles long. Flowers axillary, white with yellow and purple spots in throat.
Calyx 1.2–2.5 mm. long, lobes 0.6–0.8 mm. wide, unequal, oblong to ovate-lanceolate, minutely glandular-stipitate.
Prostrate or decumbent, much branched herb; branches 4–25 cm. long, short stipitate-glandular to subglabrous.
Capsule c. 2 mm. long, 2.5 mm. in diam., depressed globose, emarginate.
Pedicels (10–30)50–65 mm. long, capillary to filiform, glandular.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Soil humidity 4-9
Soil texture 1-6
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Images

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Distribution

Diclis petiolaris world distribution map, present in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:801960-1
WFO ID wfo-0000646101
COL ID 35QCD
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Synonyms

Simbuleta pechuelii Diclis petiolaris Anarrhinum pechuelii