Pharnaceum fluviale Eckl. & Zeyh.

Species

Angiosperms > Caryophyllales > Molluginaceae > Pharnaceum

Characteristics

Perennial, with a short stem with tufted leaves and 5-15 prostrate annual branches with whorled leaves. Stems and leaves often red. Annual branches 10-25 cm long, with internodes 3-12 cm long. Basal leaves crowded, persistent but in young plants withering about flowering time, linear, flat, about 2 cm long, 1.5-2 mm wide, not narrowed to the base but slightly widened to the tip. Stem leaves shorter and narrower, 1-2 cm long, often revolute. Stipules white, opaque, not sheathing, 2-3 cm long and about as wide, entire at the base but in the upper part cut into narrow lobes or coarse hairs. Stipules on the stems often forming a distinct bulge below the leaves. Inflorescences terminal and lateral, spreading, forking 1-3 times, the ultimate branches pseudoracemose. Peduncles slender, 1-3 cm long. Pedicels 0.4-1 cm long. Perianth segments about 3 mm long, distinctly connate at the base. Disc white, of 3 broad obtuse lobes. Stigmas thick, white. Fruit rounded, slightly longer that the perianth. Seeds dark brown, very finely granular, flattened-biconvex, with a distinct border.
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Short-stemmed perennial, with 5-15 prostrate, annual branches 0.10-0.25 m long. Leaves: basal ones linear, flat, up to 20 mm long, withering at flowering time; cauline leaves whorled, shorter and narrower, often revolute. Stipules on stems bulged below leaves; white opaque, not sheathing, basally entire, divided into lobes or coarse hairs in upper part. Inflorescences terminal and lateral, spreading; peduncles up to 30 mm long, forking 1-3x, ultimate branches pseudoracemose. Nectariferous disc white, of 3 broad, obtuse lobes. Stigmas thick, white. Flowering time Aug.-Nov. Fruit rounded, slightly longer than perianth. Seeds dark brown, very finely granular, flattened, biconvex, distinctly bordered.
Subshrub with sprawling, annual branches, 5-15 cm. Leaves in a basal tuft and whorled above, linear. Flowers in lax, terminal and axillary cymes, white, ± 3 mm long.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.05 - 0.15
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Soil texture 5-6
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

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Distribution

Pharnaceum fluviale world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:363905-1
WFO ID wfo-0001292915
COL ID 76WPJ
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Synonyms

Pharnaceum fluviale