Sebaea exacoides Schinz

Species

Angiosperms > Gentianales > Gentianaceae > Sebaea

Characteristics

Slender, erect, annual herbs 5-30 cm high; stems simple or rarely branched. Leaves 4-25 mm long, 3-18 mm broad, ovate-cordate to ovate-elliptic, cordate at the base, usually acute or acuminate, sometimes obtuse. Inflorescence corymbose, lax, 1-many-flowered; cymes 1-several-flowered; bracts ovate to lanceolate, acuminate. Calyx of 5 segments, each 6-14 mm long, 1.5-4.5 mm broad, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate-mucronate, the sides hyaline, joined for 0.5-1.5 mm, with a semi-cordate keel-wing 1-4 mm broad at the base, reticulately veined, its margins papillose. Corolla yellow or cream-coloured; tube 6-20 mm long, narrowly cylindric up to the insertion of the filaments, then campanulate; lobes 6-18.5 mm long, 3-7 mm broad, obovate to elliptic, clawed, acute or subacute, apiculate, entire or subentire. Filaments extremely short, inserted 0.75-4 mm below the corolla-sinuses; anthers 1.25-2.75 mm long; each with a sessile apical and 2 small, sometimes stipitate, basal glands. Style and stigma 16 mm long with a large stigmatic swelling below the middle; stigma clavate, 2-lobed or ligulate.
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Annual to 30 cm. Leaves ovate. Flowers 5-lobed, yellow or cream-coloured with orange streaks in throat, calyx lobes strongly winged, stamens inserted below sinuses, style swelling below middle.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.05 - 0.3
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Soil texture 5-6
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

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Images

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Distribution

Sebaea exacoides world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:370649-1
WFO ID wfo-0001063359
COL ID 4W7DW
BDTFX ID -
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Synonyms

Psalina exacoides Belmontia exacoides Parasia cordata Exacum cordatum Belmontia cordata Gentiana exacoides Hippion exacoides Sebaea exacoides Sebaea cordata