WorldFloraDB - Ibicella lutea

Characteristics

Robust, ± prostrate, annual herb, carnivorous, 0.45-1.00 m high; stems terete, striate; plant densely viscid, glandular-pubescent. Leaves large, ± opposite, long-petiolate, ± orbicular, base cordate, margins remotely dentate; 5-veined at base. Flowers pendent in dense, terminal racemes; yellow, with red dotted honey guides on lower corolla lobes; peduncles elongating in fruit. Calyx shorter than corolla. Corolla obliquely campanulate; limb sub-bilabiate, flaring. Stamens included; anthers with thecae spreading; staminode 1. Ovary ovate, tapering into long, terete, persistent style, 2-carpellate, 1-locular; stigma 2-lobed. Flowering time summer. Fruit a large, woody, cylindrical-ovoid capsule, tapering into elongated, slender, curved beak; surface with rough protuberances; splitting longitudinally into 2 valves. Seeds obovate, tuberculate.

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Erect to prostrate herb, up to 500 mm tall. Leaves reniform, 5-nerved, glandular-pubescent. Inflorescence a dense, terminal raceme. Fruit a cylindric-ovoid, woody capsule with slender curved beak, longer than spiny body. Flowers greenish yellow outside, deeper yellow to orange inside, sometimes red-blotched.

A herb. It grows each year from seed. It grows 30-70 cm tall. It has short hairs and a sticky resin. The leaves are opposite and simple. They are round to kidney shaped and have teeth along the edge. It has yellow flowers. The seed pods have double claws.

Life form	annual
Growth form	herb
Growth support	free-standing
Foliage retention	deciduous
Sexuality	hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter)	0.48 - 0.6
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Environment

A tropical plant. It grows in desert and arid conditions. In Argentina it grows below 500 m above sea level.

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Not known

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Hardiness (USDA)

Usage

The young fruit are pickled or made into sweetmeats.

Uses	medicinal
Edible	fruits
Therapeutic use	Emollient (unspecified), Resolvent (unspecified), Cataplasm (unspecified)
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Cultivation

Plants can be grown from seeds.

Mode	seedlings
Germination duration (days)	7 - 14
Germination temperacture (C°)	21
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Germination treatment	soaking
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