Harveya vestita Hiern

Species

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Orobanchaceae > Harveya

Characteristics

A herb, dusky in the dry state; stem simple, erect, glandular-puberulous, leafy throughout especially towards the base, densely scaly towards the base with abbreviated leaves, 5 in. high; leaves opposite or subopposite, mostly oval-oblong, obtuse, sessile, glandular-puberulous, entire, 1/5-1/2 in. long; racemes few-flowered, 2 in. long, narrow; pedicels 1/4-7/8 in. long, glandular-puberulous, suberect, arising from the axils of bracts; calyx 3/4 in. long, campanulate, rounded at the base, viscid-pubescent outside; lobes lanceolate, obtuse, as long as the tube, glabrous inside; corolla 1 1/4-1 1/2 in. long, funnel-shaped-tubular, slightly glandular outside and in, veined; tube broadly funnel-shaped at the prolonged throat, a little curved, about 1 in. long, about 1/5 in. broad near the base, nearly 1/2 in. broad about the throat; throat 1/2 in. long; limb concave, about 7/8 in. broad; lobes rounded, about 2/5 in. broad; filaments minutely glandular, not hirsute, filiform, longer than the anthers; anthers hairy about the top, beaked at the base; style exceeding the stamens and arching over them at the apex, not exserted.
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Mature height (meter) 0.13
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Distribution

Harveya vestita world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:803629-1
WFO ID wfo-0001138105
COL ID 6LG7N
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Synonyms

Harveya vestita