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Gomphocarpus fruticosus subsp. fruticosus Medik.

Subspecies

Angiosperms > Gentianales > Apocynaceae > Gomphocarpus > Gomphocarpus fruticosus

Characteristics

Shrub, 0.8-1.5 m high. Stems erect, much-branched. Leaves opposite, linear-lanceolate, 54-104 x 3-9 mm, base cuneate/attenuate; midrib pronounced beneath. Inflorescences extra-axillary, 4-8-flowered. Flowers white or creamy yellow. Corolla reflexed; lobes ovate, 5-8 x 3-5 mm. Staminal column stipitate. Corona white tinged purple; lobes saccate, quadrate; central sinus cavity with upper distal ends extended into 2 falcate appendages, ± level with style-stigma-head, upper margin truncate, distal end blunt. Flowering time Sept.-Mar. Follicles: stalks twisted, solitary, ovoid, inflated, beak pronounced.
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Perennial shrub, 0.9-2.0 m high, with fibrous roots and erect, glabrous stems. Leaves with blade linear or narrowly linear-ovate, 9-10 x as long as broad. Flowers: in several, racemosely arranged, nodding, 6-10-flowered umbels; corolla lobes reflexed, glabrous; corona lobes square in side view, with long, backwardly directed, falcate teeth at inner apical angles; white, cream-coloured, light yellow or light greenish; Sep.-Apr. Fruit an ovoid, glabrous follicle, tapering gradually into a beak or shortly acute.
Shrub, 0.9-2.0 m high. Leaves 9-10 times as long as broad, linear or linear-lanceolate. Umbels several, racemosely arranged, 6-10-flowered. Corolla lobes reflexed, glabrous. Corona lobes with long backwardly directed falcate teeth at inner apical angles. Follicles ovoid or lanceolate, tapering into a beak or shortly acute. Flowers white, cream, light yellow or light greenish.
Young shoots subglabrous. Corolla white or cream. Corona cream or green; upper margin generally more angular than in subsp. flavidus. Follicles ovoid, beaked but not generally long-attenuate, densely covered with filiform processes c.0.6 cm long.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support -
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread epizoochory
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.85 - 1.75
Root system fibrous-root
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Light -
Soil humidity 3-6
Soil texture 5-6
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 7-12

Usage

Uses animal food environmental use food food additive fuel material medicinal social use vertebrate poison
Edible roots
Therapeutic use Asthma (unspecified), Emetic (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -7
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Distribution

Gomphocarpus fruticosus subsp. fruticosus world distribution map, present in Angola, Albania, Argentina, Australia, Botswana, Central African Republic, China, Colombia, Algeria, Egypt, Spain, Ethiopia, France, Georgia, Gibraltar, Guinea, Greece, Croatia, India, Italy, Lebanon, Lesotho, Morocco, Madagascar, Mexico, Mozambique, Malawi, Namibia, New Zealand, Oman, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Suriname, eSwatini, Seychelles, Syrian Arab Republic, Togo, Tunisia, Uruguay, United States of America, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), Viet Nam, Yemen, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77172645-1
WFO ID wfo-0001425909
COL ID 5HHZY
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 710957
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Synonyms

Apocynum salicifolium Asclepias villosa Gomphocarpus cornutus Gomphocarpus crinitus Gomphocarpus arachnoideus Asclepias cornuta Asclepias crinita Asclepias glabra Gomphocarpus fruticosus subsp. fruticosus
WorldFloraDB 2024