Polygala arcuata Hayata

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Polygalaceae > Polygala

Characteristics

Subshrubs ca. 30 cm tall, glabrous except for pubescent young branchlets. Stems usually solitary, woody. Petiole ca. 1 cm; leaf blade abaxially glaucescent, adaxially green, elliptic-lanceolate, ca. 10 × 3 cm, membranous, slightly thick, lateral veins 4 or 5 pairs, arched, anastomosing near margin, base attenuate, apex acuminate. Racemes axillary at apices of branchlets or terminal, 5-6 cm, densely flowered. Pedicel ca. 2 mm. Flowers ca. 7 mm. Sepals 5; outer sepals 3, unequal, upper one rounded-saccate, ca. 3 mm, lateral ones orbicular, ca. 1.5 mm, base oblique; inner sepals 2, obliquely oblong, petaloid, ca. 5.5 mm. Petals 3, connate in lower 3/4, yellow; lateral petals ca. 7 mm, apex rounded; keel cucullate, apex with 2 saccate thickened appendages. Ovary glabrous, shortly stalked; style thickened toward apex; stigma in lower lobes. Capsule obovoid-reniform or broadly orbicular, ca. 4 mm, ca. 5 mm in diam.; carpels membranous, not winged, apex retuse. Seeds ovoid, ca. 2 mm, villous; strophiole ca. 1.2 mm. Fl. and fr. unknown.
Life form perennial
Growth form subshrub
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Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.3
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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 30 - 60
Germination temperacture (C°) 15 - 18
Germination luminosity light
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Distribution

Polygala arcuata world distribution map, present in China and Taiwan, Province of China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:691069-1
WFO ID wfo-0001219802
COL ID 4L76Y
BDTFX ID -
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Synonyms

Polygala arcuata Polygala crassiuscula