Gnidia scabrida Meisn.

Species

Angiosperms > Malvales > Thymelaeaceae > Gnidia

Characteristics

A shrub, up to 4 ft. high (Burchell); branches simple, straight, at first puberulous; leaves linear-lanceolate, 6 lin. long, 1.5 lin. wide, acute, suberect, pilose and rather long-ciliate when young, minutely scabrous in age; dowers at the ends of the branches; involucral leaves up to 9 lin. long; calyx gamboge-coloured (Burchell); tube 8 lin. long, basal line glabrous and ribbed, remainder woolly-pubescent; lobes linear-lanceolate, 2 lin. long, 0.67 lin. wide, woolly-pubescent outside, glabrous within; petals 8, lanceolate, acuminate, 1 lin. long; anthers 8, oblong, much shorter than the petals; ovary ovate; style half as long as the calyx-tube; stigma clavate.
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Shrub to 1.3 m. Leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, long-ciliate when young, later sparsely hairy; involucral leaves more hairy. Flowers few at branch tips, cream-yellow, hypanthium densely villous, petaloid floral scales 8, lanceolate-acuminate.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 1.26
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Distribution

Gnidia scabrida world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:831886-1
WFO ID wfo-0000704966
COL ID 3GMLX
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Synonyms

Gnidia elongata Gnidia scabrida