Quaqua pallens Bruyns

Species

Angiosperms > Gentianales > Apocynaceae > Quaqua

Characteristics

Stems 60-300 mm long, 6-12 mm thick, erect though often scandent in bushlets, grey-green to purple-black mottled with grey. Pedicel (2-)3-5 mm long, ascending and holding flower facing partly upwards. Corolla 4-8 mm diam., rotate; outside pale green; inside glabrous, lobes pale green towards tips sometimes becoming suffused with pale red towards base, rest of corolla white; tube shallow around base of gynostegium; lobes ±3 mm long, 1.5 mm broad at base, spreading to reflexed, linear-lanceolate, acute, margins not folded back, without cilia. Corona ±2 mm tall, 2.5 mm broad, yellow-green to white, narrowing towards base and without stipe; outer lobes ±1 mm long, ascending, bifid into widely diverging lobules; inner lobes ±0.5 mm long, exceeding anthers and meeting in centre, rectangular, truncate, dorsiventrally flattened, dorsally swollen near base but otherwise without dorsal projection.
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Like Q. parviflora but stems somewhat mottled, pedicels 3-5 mm long, corolla 4-8 mm diam., inside pale green, without markings, hairs or cilia, corona pale green to white.
Life form perennial
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Soil texture 7-8
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Distribution

Quaqua pallens world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1010419-1
WFO ID wfo-0000398798
COL ID 4QZW8
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Synonyms

Quaqua pallens