Sebaea minutiflora Schinz

Species

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Characteristics

Erect annual herbs 5-20 cm high, simple or branched. Leaves 0.3-1.5 cm long and equally broad, ovate to ovate-orbicular, cuneate or cordate at the base, obtuse. Inflorescence usually many-flowered, of dense, head-like bracteate cymes with subsessile flowers; bracts foliaceous, broadly ovate to ovate-deltoid. Calyx of 4 segments, each 3-5.5 mm long, 1-3.5 mm broad, obovate-oblong to obovate-suborbicular, somewhat erose or erose-dentate in the upper part, faintly keeled below and with a small apical wing 0.75-1.5 mm long and 0.5-1 mm broad, the sides membranous, joined for 0.5-0.75 mm. Corolla white; tube 3.5-4 mm long; lobes 1-2.5 mm long, 0-75.1-75 mm broad, ovate-oblong to suborbicular, rounded. Filaments 0.25-0.5 mm long, inserted in the corolla-sinuses; anthers 0. 4-0.5 mm long, each with a conspicuous apical gland. Style and stigma 1.5-2 mm long, without a stigmatic swelling, but sometimes thickened below the stigma; stigma clavate or capitate-clavate, 2-lobed.
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Erect, annual herb, 0.05-0.20 m high; simple or branched. Leaves 3-15 x 3-15 mm, ovate to ovate-orbicular. Flowers in many-flowered, dense, head-like cymes; flowers subsessile, bracteate. Caly x: segments 4, erose or erose-dentate in upper part, keeled below or with small, apical wing. Corolla white; tube 3.5-4.0 mm long, as long or longer than lobes. Stamens inserted in corolla sinuses; anthers with apical glands. Style without swelling, sometimes thickened below stigma; stigma clavate or capitate-clavate, bilobed. Fruit a capsule.
Like S. ambigua but flowers white, smaller, petals 1.0-2.5 mm long and style without a swelling.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.05 - 0.2
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Environment

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Soil texture 5-6
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

Usage

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Distribution

Sebaea minutiflora world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:370694-1
WFO ID wfo-0001063387
COL ID 4W7FB
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Sebaea minutiflora