Merciera azurea Schltr.

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Campanulaceae > Merciera

Characteristics

Stems decumbent, stout, occasionally with group of branches at end of each season's growth. Leaves crowded, spreading, glabrous or hairy on abaxial surface, axillary cluster of smaller leaves occasionally present; bract-like leaves 4.0-9.5 mm long. Flowers violet-blue, rarely white; hypanthium 1.52.7 mm long, hispid with clavate or filiform trichomes; calyx lobes 5. 1.0-1.9 mm long, hairy on hyaline tips; corolla tube wide, 7-14 mm long; lobes 5, ovate. 3.0-5.5 mm long, glabrous or hairy on back. Stamens 5; filaments 7-11 mm long. Style 12.0-19.5 mm long.
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Rigid, closely leafy shrublet to 30 cm. Leaves imbricate, stiffly linear, pungent, shortly hairy, margins lightly revolute and roughly ciliate. Flowers subsessile in upper axils, blue to purple, tube narrowly funnel-shaped, 10-25 mm long, petals elliptic-lanceolate.
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Distribution

Merciera azurea world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:144104-1
WFO ID wfo-0000816492
COL ID 3ZTGJ
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Synonyms

Merciera azurea Merciera tenuifolia var. azurea