WorldFloraDB - Gomphostemma crinitum

Characteristics

Herbs. Leaf blade oblong, 15-23 × 7-10 cm, bullate, adaxially sparsely hirtellous with stellate hairs, abaxially densely gray stellate tomentose, base attenuate-decurrent, margin irregularly coarse dentate, apex acute, slightly oblique. Cymes grouped in axils, much branched, subsessile, ca. 5 cm in diam.; bracts linear-lanceolate, ca. 12 × 3 mm, 1(-3)-veined; bracteoles linear. Calyx narrowly campanulate, 1-1.2 cm, 3-3.5 mm in diam., somewhat enlarged in fruit; teeth linear, 6-7 mm. Corolla yellow, ± straight, 2-2.5 cm; tube ca. 2 mm wide at base, to 3.5 mm at throat; upper lip ca. 5 × 3.5 mm, lower lip ca. 6 × 7 mm. Nutlet 1 at maturity, ca. 6 × 3 mm, glabrous, smooth. Fl. and fr. Oct.

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Coarse perennial herb, 50-150 cm. Stem stout, erect, sulcate, hoary-pubescent or scabrid. Leaves herbaceous, elliptic-ovate or oblanceolate, 25-30 by 8-15 cm, acute, base cuneate, entire; margin elsewhere entire or remotely serrate, pubescent above, softly pubescent or tomentose beneath; petiole 2-5 cm, scabrid. Flowers in lax or condensed, many-flowered axillary, often branched cymes. Bracts linear, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 1-2 cm long. Calyx 1.5-2 cm long, hispid-tomentose; teeth linear subulate, 9-13 mm long. Corolla greenish white or yellow, 2.5-3.5 cm long, outside puberulent; throat narrow. Style and ovary glabrous. Nutlets smooth, glabrous, 6 by 3 mm.

Life form

perennial

Growth form

herb

Growth support

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Foliage retention

deciduous

Sexuality

hermaphrodite

Pollination

-

Spread

-

Mature width (meter)

-

Mature height (meter)

0.5 - 1.5

Root system

-

Rooting depth (meter)

-

Root diameter (meter)

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Flower color

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Blooming months

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Fruit color

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Fruiting months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Nitrogen fixer

-

Photosynthetic pathway

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Environment

Usually on limestone cliffs and at the base of limestone hills, below c. 500 m. Fl. Jan.-Dec.

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Hardiness (USDA)

Usage

Uses. BURKILL ( BURKILL Dict. 1935 1097 ) reported that a decoction of the roots is administered after confinement. Pounded leaves, with camphor, are applied to swellings of the groin.

Uses	medicinal
Edible	-
Therapeutic use	Groin (unspecified), Parturition (unspecified), Swelling (unspecified)
Human toxicity	-
Animal toxicity	-

Cultivation

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Distribution

Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:447486-1
WFO ID	wfo-0000974271
COL ID	3GTC6
BDTFX ID	-
INPN ID	-
Wikipedia (EN)
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Gomphostemma crinitum Gomphostemma crinitum var. griffithii

WorldFloraDB 2024

Gomphostemma crinitum Wall.

Species