Sebaea exigua Schinz

Species

Angiosperms > Gentianales > Gentianaceae > Sebaea

Characteristics

Slender, erect or ascending herbs up to 20 cm high; stems simple or branched from the base, sometimes glandular. Leaves up to 1.2 cm long, 1-1.5 mm broad, scattered along the stems, linear-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, the lower ones sometimes reduced and scale-like. Inflorescence 1-few-flowered; bracts lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acute or acuminate. Calyx of 5 segments, each 5.5-10 mm long, 1-2.25 mm broad, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, joined for 2-4 mm at the base, keeled or very narrowly winged in the lower part, the midrib often distinctly branched. Corolla yellow or pale yellow; tube 5-7.5 mm long; lobes 6-9.25 mm long, 3-5.25 mm broad, ovate-elliptic to ovate-cordate or ovate-orbicular, acute or rounded, sometimes apiculate, shortly clawed. Filaments 1.75-3 mm long, inserted in the sinuses; anthers 1.75-3.5 mm long, each with a minute apical gland. Style and stigma 5-7 mm long with a small stigmatic swelling near the base; stigma large, capitate, 2-lobed.
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Annual or biennial herb, up to 200 mm high. Stems slender, erect. Leaves in relatively few pairs, internodes prominent; blade linear to narrowly ovate, 12 x 1.0-1.5 mm. Flowers: in 1-few-flowered cymes; filaments inserted in corolla sinuses; anthers with a minute apical gland; style with small stigmatic swelling near base, style and stigma 5-7 mm long; calyx keeled or very narrowly winged, joined for 2-4 mm at base; corolla with tube 5.0-7.5 mm long, yellow or pale yellow; Oct., Feb.-Jun.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.2
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Environment

Light -
Soil humidity 1-3
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses medicinal
Edible -
Therapeutic use Inflammation (unspecified), Wound (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

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Distribution

Sebaea exigua world distribution map, present in Lesotho, Namibia, and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:370650-1
WFO ID wfo-0001063360
COL ID 4W7DX
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Sebaea linearifolia Sebaea exigua Chironia exigua