Sebaea micrantha Schinz

Species

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Characteristics

Erect, annual herbs, usually slender and unbranched, stems 3-20 cm tall, angled or narrowly winged. Leaves 2-12 mm long, 1.5-10 mm broad, ovate to suborbicular-cordate, obtuse or acute, often apiculate, margins sometimes with minute bristles. Inflorescence dense or lax, 1-many-flowered, corymbose; bracts ovate to lanceolate, entire or smooth or minutely bristled along the margins, acute or acuminate. Calyx of 5 segments; each 5-10 mm long, 1.25-2.5 mm broad, elliptic-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, the sides membranous, opaque and brittle when dry, joined for 0.5-1 mm, with a reticulately veined, semi-cordate keel-wing up to 2.5 mm broad at the base, its margin smooth, papillose or bristly. Corolla yellow; tube 4-10 mm long, narrowly cylindric up to the point of insertion of the filaments, then campanulate; lobes 1.75-6 mm long, 0.5-2 mm broad, oblanceolate to ovate, acuminate to obtuse, often apiculate, entire or slightly erose near the apex. Filaments very short, inserted in or 0.3-1.25 mm below the corolla-sinuses; anthers 0.5-1.25 mm long, each with a small stipitate or sessile, sometimes threadlike apical gland, rarely also with 2 minute basal glands. Style and stigma 2.75-6.25 mm long, the stigmatic swelling long and confluent with the stigma.
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Annual herb, 0.03-0.20 m high; stems angled or narrowly winged. Leaves 2-12 x 1.5-10.0 mm, ovate to suborbicular-cordate, margins sometimes with minute bristles. Flowers in dense or lax, 1-many-flowered corymbs. Calyx: segments 5; keel wing reticulately veined, semi-cordate. Corolla yellow; tube 4-10 mm long, ± erose near apex. Stamens inserted in or 0.30-1.25 mm below corolla sinuses; anthers with stipitate or sessile, thread-like apical glands. Style with swelling long and confluent with stigma. Fruit a capsule.
Annual to 20 cm. Leaves ovate. Flowers 5-lobed, yellow, calyx lobes strongly winged, stamens inserted below sinuses, style swelling confluent with stigma.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Distribution

Sebaea micrantha world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:370690-1
WFO ID wfo-0001063383
COL ID 4W7F6
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Synonyms

Belmontia micrantha Sebaea micrantha Sebaea micrantha var. micrantha

Lower taxons

Sebaea micrantha var. intermedia