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Muraltia vulnerans Levyns

Species

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Characteristics

Perennial shrub or dwarf shrub, 0.2-0.9 m high. Leaves fasciculate, usually with distinct internodes, linear, spine-tipped, minutely ciliolate near base. Bracts 1.5-2.0 mm. long, concave, broadly ovate or deltoid, obtuse, or somewhat acute and mucronate, minutely ciliolate, midrib and lateral veins evident. Flowers white; carina dark purple, sessile. Sepals elliptical, chaff-like, ciliolate, midrib conspicuous, outer pair concave, inner pair almost flat. Side petals widest near middle, shorter than carina. Flowering time May? Fruit a glabrous capsule. Seed ellipsoidal, hispid.
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Erect, much-branched shrub, 0.2-0.8 m tall, branchlets often spiny. Leaves clustered, narrowly linear, 4-13 mm long, spine-tipped, straight or rarely ± reflexed, minutely ciliolate near base, secondary ones smaller. Flowers sessile, axillary, white, with dark purple keel. Capsule with prominent leaf-like horns.
Intricately branched shrublet, mostly to 40 cm, branchlets often spiny. Leaves fascicled, sessile, linear, channelled, spine-tipped. Flowers sessile, axillary, white with purple keel. Capsules prominently horned.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.2 - 0.85
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Environment

Light -
Soil humidity 1-3
Soil texture 7-8
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

Usage

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Cultivation

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Distribution

Muraltia vulnerans world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:690949-1
WFO ID wfo-0001100571
COL ID 44LHK
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Muraltia vulnerans
WorldFloraDB 2024