Gnidia chrysophylla Meisn.

Species

Angiosperms > Malvales > Thymelaeaceae > Gnidia

Characteristics

Branches slender, glabrous; branchlets silky; leaves opposite, imbricate, obtuse, nerveless, densely adpressed golden-silky, the upper scarcely larger; heads 2-3-flowered; calyx 3-4 lin. long, silky; lobes ovate, obtuse, petals 4, rather fleshy, ovate-oblong, entire, half as long as the calyx-lobes; ovary puberulous at the apex.
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Shrublet to 60 cm. Leaves opposite, elliptic-obovate, densely and smoothly silky hairy; involucral leaves similar. Flowers 6-9 at branch tips, cream-coloured, hypanthium densely silky hairy, petaloid floral scales 4, fleshy.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.6
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Usage

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Cultivation

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Distribution

Gnidia chrysophylla world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:831705-1
WFO ID wfo-0000704771
COL ID 3GMFL
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Gnidia chrysophylla