Sebaea membranacea A.W.Hill

Species

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Characteristics

Slender, erect, simple or branched annual herbs up to 15 cm high. Leaves up to 1.6 cm long and 9 mm broad, ovate-elliptic to ovate, subacute. Inflorescence corymbose; cymes few-flowered; bracts more or less foliaceous, or the upper ones linear-subulate. Calyx of 5 segments, each 4.5-5 mm long, about 1 mm broad, lanceolate, acuminate, the sides hyaline, joined for 0.5-1.25 mm, strongly keeled or very narrowly winged. Corolla yellow; tube 3-4.75 mm long; lobes 1.5-2.25 mm long, 0.5-0.75 mm broad, triangular-elongate to oblong, rounded. Filaments very short, inserted 0.25-0.5 mm below the corolla-sinuses; anthers 0.6-0.75 mm long, each with a small, round, stipitate apical and 2 bigger stipitate basal glands. Style and stigma 1-1.5 mm long with a very small swelling below the stigma and almost confluent with it; stigma small, capitate or linear-oblong, 2-lobed.
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Annual, up to 150 mm tall. Leaves lanceolate. Flowers 5-lobed, yellow, calyx lobes keeled, stamens inserted shortly below corolla sinuses, anthers each with a small, round, shortly stalked, apical gland and 2 bigger, shortly stalked, basal glands, style swelling below or confluent with stigma.
Like S. rara but to 15 cm, anthers with 3 glands.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.15
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Soil texture 5-6
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

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Distribution

Sebaea membranacea world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:370689-1
WFO ID wfo-0001063382
COL ID 4W7F5
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Synonyms

Sebaea membranacea