Sebaea macrophylla Gilg

Species

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Characteristics

Perennial herbs branched from the base and higher up, stiffly erect, ascending, or procumbent and straggly, up to 75 cm high. Leaves 0.6-2.1 cm long, 0.4-2.2 cm broad, subreniform, broadly ovate or cordate to suborbicular-ovate, sometimes broader than long, rounded or acute, often apiculate, membranous or coriaceous, margin sometimes reflexed; upper leaves sometimes narrower, ovate-oblong to ovate-lanceolate. Inflorescence often leafy, dense and many-flowered, or 1-several-flowered cymes terminal, on lateral branches or from the upper axils, or corymbose or paniculate-corymbose; bracts often foliaceous, ovate-cordate; in certain habit-forms smaller, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, spreading or recurved. Calyx of 5 segments (rarely 6-merous), each 5.5-9.5 mm long, 1.5-5 mm broad, lanceolate or elliptic to ovate or obovate, obtuse, acute or acuminate, mucronate, the sides hyaline to opaque and strawlike, often overlapping widely, joined for up to 0.75 mm, keeled or with a wing up to 1 mm broad, broadest at or below the middle. Corolla yellow; tube 5-9 mm long; lobes 5.5-11 mm long, 2.75-6 mm broad, oblong-oblanceolate to orbicular-obovate, rounded, sometimes apiculate, clawed. Filaments 1-2.75 mm long, inserted in the corolla-sinuses; anthers 1-3.75 mm long, each with a small to fairly big apical gland and usually with 2 smaller basal glands, very rarely apparently eglandular. Style and stigma 5-10 mm long, with a small to large stimatic swelling below the middle; stigma capitate or clavate, 2-lobed.
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Perennial herb, up to 0.75 m high. Stems erect, decumbent, procumbent or straggly. Leaves in many pairs scattered along stems; blade broadly ovate, base cordate, 6-21 x 4-22 mm. Flowers: in leafy, dense, many-flowered, corymbose cymes, branches long; filaments inserted in corolla sinuses; anthers with a small to big apical gland and 2 smaller basal glands; style with small to large stigmatic swelling below middle; calyx very wide, markedly 5-angled; corolla with tube 5-9 mm long, yellow; Feb.-Jul.
Perennial herb, 0.10-0.75 m high; ascending or procumbent and straggly, erect higher up. Leaves 6-21 x 4-22 mm, subreniform to ovate. Flowers in 1-many-flowered cymes. Calyx: segments 5, sides hyaline to opaque and straw-like. Corolla yellow; tube 5-9 mm long, clawed. Stamens inserted in corolla sinuses; anthers with apical glands, sometimes 2 basal glands. Style with small to large swelling below middle; stigma clavate or capitate, bilobed. Flowering time June-Feb. Fruit a capsule.
Perennial to 75 cm. Leaves ovate. Flowers 5-or 6-lobed, yellow, calyx lobes keeled or winged, membranous, stamens inserted in sinuses, anthers with 3 glands or without glands, style swelling below middle.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.75
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Soil humidity 4-6
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Distribution

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

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:370685-1
WFO ID wfo-0001063375
COL ID 79ZRP
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Synonyms

Sebaea macrophylla Sebaea brehmeri Sebaea fastigiata Sebaea multiflora Sebaea schinziana Sebaea wittebergensis Sebaea hymenosepala var. grandiflora