WorldFloraDB - Nesogenes madagascariensis

Characteristics

Leaves opposite, becoming ± scaberulous; petiole short, slender; lamina up to 35(45) × 10 mm, ovate-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, tapering to an acute apex, cuneate-attenuate at the base, and narrowly decurrent onto the petiole, entire or crenate-serrate with (2)4–5(6) teeth on each side, the upper leaves smaller and entire; indumentum of small acicular antrorse hairs on both surfaces intermixed with gland-tipped hairs, more numerous on the veins, with several rows of acicular antrorse hairs on the margins; veins ± obscure, in (2)4–5(6) pairs.

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Stem terete, with short internodes and usually 2 branches at each node, or stem sparsely branched, pilose with spreading ± crisped hairs intermixed with multicellular gland-tipped hairs; branches 10–33 cm long, slender, ascending or sometimes procumbent.

Calyx narrowly campanulate with (4)5 deltoid lobes, hispid and ciliate with antrorse hairs and sometimes intermixed with pilose gland-tipped hairs; calyx tube 2–3 mm long; lobes 1–2 mm long.

Corolla white, cream, pink or mauve, tubular-infundibuliform; tube c. 4 mm long, lobes c. 1 mm long, rounded.

Filaments 1–2 mm long, glabrous; anther thecae c. 0.3 mm long, unequal, divaricate, inverted, tailed.

Flowers in groups of 2–3 in each leaf axil, or solitary in upper axils; pedicels 0.3 mm long.

Seeds 2, oblong, foveolate, with the foveoles in longitudinal rows.

Ovary 2-locular with 1 ovule per locule; style 2 mm long, filiform.

Erect, slender or bushy, annual herb up to 45 cm tall.

Fruit 2 mm long, obovoid.

Life form	annual
Growth form	herb
Growth support	parasite
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Sexuality	hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter)	0.45
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Cultivation

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Distribution

Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:912875-1
WFO ID	wfo-0001240556
COL ID	6S96R
BDTFX ID	-
INPN ID	790050
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Synonyms

Stemodiopsis glomeratus Stemodiopsis scutellarioides Stemodiopsis madagascariensis Nesogenes madagascariensis

WorldFloraDB 2024

Nesogenes madagascariensis (Bonati) Marais

Species