Droguetia ambigua Wedd.

Species

Angiosperms > Rosales > Urticaceae > Droguetia

Characteristics

Herb, apparently annual but possibly sometimes perennial. Stems prostrate and ascending, up to 0.4 m high; young branches with sparse to dense erect stiff or sometimes curly hairs. Leaves broadly ovate to rhomboid, up to 40 x 22 mm but usually much smaller, almost glabrous above, with a few stiff hairs along veins below, apex bluntly acute, terminal tooth ± as long as broad, base broadly cuneate, margin crenate to bluntly serrate with 2-7 pairs of teeth; petiole up to 14 mm long but usually shorter; stipules broadly lanceolate, up to 2 x 1.5 mm, green, ciliate. Inflorescences bisexual and almost globular in upper axils, unisexual (female) only in lower axils; bisexual inflorescences pubescent or lanate on outside, densely lanate on inside, up to 2.5 mm in diameter. Achenes enclosed in markedly lanate involucre.
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Perennial herb, 0.2-0.4 m high. Leaves mostly opposite, but uppermost and side branches sometimes alternate, broadly ovate, up to 40 x 22 mm, but usually much less, glabrous above, margins crenate to bluntly serrate; petioles pubescent, up to 14 mm long; stipules green, broadly lanceolate, up to 2 x 1.5 mm, ciliate, apex acute. Inflorescence axillary, involucres pubescent, globular in upper leaf axils, up to 2.5 mm in diam.; up to 10 male flowers and 1 or 2 female flowers; lower axils small and ovoid, each involucre with 1 or 2 female flowers. Flowering time Nov.-May. Fruit enclosed achenes in markedly lanate involucres.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.3 - 0.4
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

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Distribution

Droguetia ambigua world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:851671-1
WFO ID wfo-0000656813
COL ID 37PKS
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Synonyms

Droguetia urticifolia Droguetia ambigua Droguetia cuneata Parietaria cuneata