Sebaea erosa Schinz

Species

Angiosperms > Gentianales > Gentianaceae > Sebaea

Characteristics

Slender, annual (or biennial ?), erect or ascending herbs, simple or much-branched from the base, 5-15 cm high. Leaves up to 1 cm long and nearly as broad, ovate-orbicular to ovate-lanceolate, rounded or acute; lower leaves sometimes crowded. Inflorescence very lax, branched and pedicels long and slender, cymes few-flowered; bracts ovate to lanceolate, acuminate. Calyx of 5 segments, each 3-5 mm long, 0.5-1.25 mm broad, lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate or more or less oblong, acute or acuminate, the sides membranous, joined for 0.75-1.5 mm, margins entire or erose, keeled or very narrowly winged. Corolla yellow; tube 4.5-7 mm long; lobes 2.25-4.5 mm long, 0.75-2.5 mm broad, ovate-oblong or obovate-oblong, rounded or truncate and apiculate, or sometimes acute, entire or erose. Filaments very short, inserted 0.5-1 mm below the corolla-sinuses; anthers 0.5-1.25 mm long, each with a large, oblong, stipitate or a small, round, apical gland. Style and stigma 2.5-6 mm long, swelling rather small, usually below, but sometimes above the middle; stigma capitate or shortly clavate, 2-lobed.
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Annual herb, 0.05-0.16 m high; erect or ascending, base simple or branched. Leaves up to 10 x 10 mm, ovate. Flowers in few-flowered cymes; peduncles and pedicels filiform, bracteate. Calyx: segments 5, lanceolate to oblong, margins entire or ± erose, joined for 0.75-1.50 mm, keeled or narrowly winged. Corolla yellow, entire or erose. Stamens inserted 0.5-1.0 mm below corolla sinuses; anthers with large or small apical glands. Style with small swelling below or above middle; stigma 2-lobed, capitate or clavate. Fruit a capsule.
Annual herb, 50-150 mm high. Stems slender, erect. Leaves in relatively few pairs, internodes prominent; blade ovate-orbicular, ± 10 x 10 mm. Flowers: in lax, few-flowered cymes, pedicels long; filaments inserted 0.5-1.0 mm below corolla sinuses; style with a small stigmatic swelling, usually below middle, but sometimes above middle; calyx segments keeled; corolla with tube 4.5-7.0 mm long, yellow; Oct.-Jul.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.05 - 0.15
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Soil texture 1-2
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Distribution

Sebaea erosa world distribution map, present in Lesotho and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:370647-1
WFO ID wfo-0001063357
COL ID 4W7DV
BDTFX ID -
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Synonyms

Sebaea erosa Sebaea pygmaea