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Polygala ephedroides Burch.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Polygalaceae > Polygala

Characteristics

Dwarf shrub or shrub, up to 2 m high; not spinescent. Stems virgately branched; glabrous or with a few scattered hairs. Leaves few and distant, appressed; blade narrowly linear, 7-20 x 1-5 mm, apex acute or obtuse, sometimes subulate, mucronulate. Flowers: in lax, many-flowered, terminal racemes; wings broadly obovate, ± 9 x 7 mm, greenish white with many, spreading, forked reddish brown veins; petals purple; Nov.-Apr.
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Perennial dwarf shrub, 0.5-2.0 m high; stems little or very sparsely foliose. Leaves linear, 1.0-1.5 mm wide. Flowers papilionaceous, bracts and bracteoles up to 1 mm long, crest up to 3 mm long. Flowering time July-Apr. Seed with rough or hard hairs exceeding base of seed up to 1.5 mm, caruncle quite asymmetrical, with the odd branch double or more the length of the others.
Many stemmed, erect, sparsely leaved shrub, up to 2 m tall. Leaves linear, 1-1.5 mm wide. Flowers in long, slender, terminal racemes, pale to dark pink, lateral sepals suborbicular to ± oblong-elliptical, broad.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 2.0
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Environment

Light -
Soil humidity 1-3
Soil texture 3-4
Soil acidity -
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses -
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

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

Polygala ephedroides world distribution map, present in Namibia and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:691405-1
WFO ID wfo-0001100347
COL ID 4L7GY
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Polygala ephedroides Polygala xerophytica
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