Polygala stenopetala Klotzsch

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Polygalaceae > Polygala

Characteristics

Flowers blue or greenish with purple-brown veining, pedicels 3–4 mm. long, in elongated, terminal racemes up to 20 cm. long with glabrous rhachis and small caducous bracts 1 mm. long and bracteoles 0.8 mm. long.
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Posterior sepal 2 mm. long; wing sepals 5–6.5 x 4–5.5 mm., obliquely suborbicular or rotund; anterior sepals 1.8 mm. long, connate.
Perennial herb (sometimes annual ?) or shrublet up to 1.5 m. tall with slender, erect, slightly winged, glabrous stems.
Seeds 2.5 x 1.5 mm., ellipsoid, with rather short, brownish, appressed hairs; caruncular appendages absent.
Upper petals 3 x 2.5 mm., obliquely and irregularly obovate; carina 6.5 x 3.5 mm., crest 2 mm. long.
Leaves 15–50 x 1–5 mm., linear, grasslike, pointed at the apex, glabrous.
Capsule 5–6 x 3.5–4.5 mm., obliquely oblong, glabrous.
Stamens 8.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support -
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
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Mature height (meter) 1.5
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Light -
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Usage

Uses medicinal
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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Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:692380-1
WFO ID wfo-0001100682
COL ID 783ZD
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Polygala asperifolia Polygala stenopetala Polygala viminalis

Lower taxons

Polygala stenopetala subsp. casuarina