Grielum grandiflorum Druce

Desert primrose (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Malvales > Neuradaceae > Grielum

Characteristics

White-woolly perennial, with sprawling annual shoots up to 0.3 m long. Leaves pinnatisect or bipinnatisect, lobes mucronate, firm. Flowers yellow with a green eye, sepals lanceolate-acuminate, at first cobwebby, then glabrous. Fruit depressed-pentagonal, with a peripheral wing and central spines.
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A sprawling herb. It forms mats. The shoots can be 30 cm long. It has white woolly hairs. The leaves and divided. The flowers are yellow with a green eye. The fruit are flattened and 5 sided. They have a central spine.
Sprawling, white-woolly perennial, often mat-forming. Leaves pinnatisect or bipinnatisect, lobes mucronate. Flowers yellow with a green eye. Fruits depressed-pentagonal with a peripheral wing and central spines.
Life form
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 0.3 - 0.75
Mature height (meter) 0.1 - 0.5
Root system -
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It is a subtropical plant.
Light 4-9
Soil humidity -
Soil texture 5-6
Soil acidity 2-8
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 8-9

Usage

The root is eaten as a snack and a vegetable.
Uses -
Edible roots
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or divisions.
Mode cuttings divisions
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Images

Grielum grandiflorum unspecified picture

Distribution

Grielum grandiflorum world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:725428-1
WFO ID wfo-0000710425
COL ID 6KSN5
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Grielum grandiflorum Geranium grandiflorum Grielum tenuifolium