Priva meyeri var. meyeri

Variety

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Verbenaceae > Priva > Priva meyeri

Characteristics

Perennial, straggling herb, 0.5-1.0 m high; rootstock woody; stems 1-several, herbaceous. Leaves opposite; ovate-lanceolate, base subtruncate, apex subobtuse, margins crenate-serrate. Inflorescence: slender racemes, young flowers densely spaced towards apex; bracts linear-lanceolate. Flowers white, pale pink or pale mauve with purple or red lines on lower lip. Calyx persistent; tube truncate with 5 small teeth at apex. Corolla: tube glabrous outside, hairy within; 5-lobed, ± 2-lipped, lobes obovate. Stamens 4 didynamous, arising at middle of corolla tube. Flowering time Oct.-Apr. Fruit dry, enclosed in calyx tube, separating into two 2-locular, 2-seeded mericarps.
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Perennial herb, up to 0.5 m high. Stems laxly spreading or sprawling. Leaves petiolate; blade ovate, 15-50 x 10-35 mm, base truncate, apex acute, margins crenate; petioles up to 8 mm long. Flowers: in a terminal spike; calyx accrescent in fruit; corolla 7-10 mm long, only white or with pale mauve markings; Sep.-May. Fruit dry, enclosed in calyx tube, separating into 2 pyrenes.
Perennial herb, up to 500 mm tall. Leaves ovate, 10-30 mm wide, distinctly petiolate. Fruiting calyx conspicuously inflated. Cocci not echinate, merely scrobiculate-reticulate or slightly verruculose. Flowers white with pale mauve markings.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.5
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Soil humidity 1-12
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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Distribution

Priva meyeri var. meyeri world distribution map, present in Botswana, Mozambique, eSwatini, South Africa, and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77169761-1
WFO ID wfo-0000283334
COL ID 5QY9Y
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Synonyms

Priva meyeri var. meyeri