Merciera leptoloba A.Dc.

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Campanulaceae > Merciera

Characteristics

Stems decumbent with groups of branches at end of each season's growth. Leaves scattered to crowded, lower leaves more than 8 mm long, glabrous to hairy on abaxial surface, w ith axillary cluster of smaller leaves; bract-like leaves 2-8 mm long. Flowers white; hypanthium 1-3 mm long; trichomes clavate; calyx lobes 5. 0.7-1.8 mm long, hairy on hyaline tips, rarely on back; corolla tube 3.0-5.5 mm long, occasionally shorter than lobes; lobes 5. linear. 2-6 mm long, glabrous on back. Stamens 5; filaments 3-5 mm long. Sty le 4-12 mm long.
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Rigid, closely leafy shrublet to 30 cm. Leaves imbricate, stiffly linear, pungent, shortly hairy, margins slightly revolute and harshly ciliate but axillary leaves glabrous. Flowers subsessile in upper axils, white, tube slender, 3-6 mm long, petals linear-lanceolate.
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Distribution

Merciera leptoloba world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:144109-1
WFO ID wfo-0000816489
COL ID 3ZTGN
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Synonyms

Merciera leptoloba Merciera tenuifolia var. leptoloba Merciera brevifolia var. leptoloba