Ophionella willowmorensis Bruyns

Species

Angiosperms > Gentianales > Apocynaceae > Ophionella

Characteristics

Stems 30-150 mm long, 3-5 mm thick, often somewhat subterranean, then slender and becoming thicker on emerging. Pedicel 1.5-6.0 mm long, 0.50-0.75 mm thick, glabrous, ascending; sepals ±1 mm long, 0.25-0.50 mm broad at base, transparent-white, ovate-acuminate, papillate. Corolla 3.5-7.0 mm long, 4-6 mm broad (usually broadest just beyond mouth of tube), bud-like and broadly elliptical to nearly spherical to depressed-globose; outside white to white at base speckled with pale red above coalescing on lobes, glabrous, with small obtuse conical papillae except towards base; inside smooth, with bold irregular deep red spots on lobes and 3 concentric deep red rings in tube all on white background, with stiff erect cylindrical white to red hairs up to 1 mm long in tube and to ± middle of lobes; tube 1.5-2.0 mm long, 3.0-4.5 mm broad, shallowly bowl-shaped, not thickened at mouth; lobes 3-5 mm long, 2.0-3.3 mm broad at base, ascending then becoming horizontal or descending towards apices where remaining fused, deltate, acuminate, slightly convex inside. Corona ±1.2 mm tall, 1.5-2.5 mm broad, raised on short cylindrical stipe ±0.5 mm long, bright yellow, sometimes flecked with red on backs of inner lobes; outer lobes ±0.5 mm long (usually exceeding dorsal projection of inner lobe), ascending, lanceolate-obtuse to acuminate, joined laterally to horizontally spreading flattened projection apically divided into 4-5 obtuse teeth; inner lobes ±0.25 mm long, deltoid to subquadrate, emarginate, adpressed to backs of anthers and usually shorter than them, dorsiventrally flattened.
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Perennial, creeping succulent, 30-150 mm long, 3-5 mm thick; stems somewhat subterranean, then slender, becoming thicker on emerging. Inflorescences arising near base of stem, of four small clusters. Sepals ovate-acuminate, transparent white, papillate. Corolla bud-like, broadly elliptical; outside white, speckled with pale red; inside white with 3 concentric deep red rings in tube, smooth with indumentum of stiff, erect, cylindric white to red hairs up to 1 mm long. Corona raised on short, cylindrical stipe, bright yellow, 1.2 x 1.5-2.5 mm; outer lobes ± 0.5 mm long, lanceolate-obtuse to acuminate, laterally joined to horizontally spreading, flattened projections divided into 4 or 5 obtuse teeth; inner lobes 0.25 mm long, ± deltoid, appressed to backs of anthers, dorsiventrally flattened. Flowering time Jan.?
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Distribution

Ophionella willowmorensis world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1012038-1
WFO ID wfo-0000384560
COL ID 49YP9
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Synonyms

Ophionella willowmorensis