Fockea sinuata (E.Mey.) Druce

Species

Angiosperms > Gentianales > Apocynaceae > Fockea

Characteristics

Perennial, herbaceous geophyte, deciduous. Stems 50-300(-450) mm long, simple or bifurcate, erect or weakly twining, young growth tomentose; produced from napiform tuber. Leaves brownish to grey-green, linear to linear-oblong, margins strongly sinuate, also revolute, 35-65 x 2-4 mm, apex obtuse, pubescent on darker-coloured upper surface, sessile. Inflorescence a 1-10-flowered cyme; peduncle (1)3-5 mm long; pedicels 1-3 mm long. Corolla: tube 1.5-2.5(-3.0) mm long, outside greyish green, inside green to brown; lobes narrowly lanceolate, 3.5-4.5 x 2 mm, margins reflexed, apex twisted. Gynostegial column shortly pseudostipitate. Corona: interstaminal corona lobes exceeding corolla tube, consisting of 5 lobes fused basally into a tube (3-)4-6 mm long; lobes apically divided into 3 lobules, middle one cylindric, strongly reflexed and longer, 2.0-2.5 or 3-4 mm long, lobules on each side erect and shorter, these major complex lobes connected by 5 linear lobules that are truncate to emarginate and erect; staminal corona of 5 cylindric linear lobes appressed against the stamens and overtopping them, erect. Anther appendages ± 2/3 length of corona tube.
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Perennial herb, tuber turnip-shaped. Stems erect, not climbing, few branches, becoming woody; pubescent. Leaves sessile; blade linear, 20-35 x 2-3 mm, longitudinally regularly undulate, upper surface glabrous, on lower surface only midrib pubescent. Flowers: inflorescence sessile, 3-6-flowered; corona white, tube ± 3 mm high; corolla tube campanulate, 2.5 mm high, lobes linear to narrowly ovate, 4-6 mm long, green to brown; Jan.-Mar. Fruit a follicle.
A herb. It has a tuber and the plant keeps growing from year to year. The stems are erect. They are hairy and become woody. The leaves are 2-3.5 cm long by 2-3 mm wide. The flowers are brownish.
Like F. comaru but leaves crisped and margins not recurved, flowers brownish, usually with short petals, fruits warty and seeds with hairs all around margin.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support climber
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Environment

It is a Mediterranean climate plant.
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Soil texture 4-6
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

The tuber can be eaten raw. It can also be cooked. It is also boiled with sugar to make a kind of preserve.
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Edible roots tubers
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Cultivation

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Distribution

Fockea sinuata world distribution map, present in Namibia and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:97448-1
WFO ID wfo-0000691458
COL ID 6JBZ9
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Synonyms

Fockea sinuata Fockea undulata Brachystelma sinuatum