Sebaea natalensis Schinz

Species

Angiosperms > Gentianales > Gentianaceae > Sebaea

Characteristics

Erect or ascending herbs up to 25 cm high, often branched from the base, simple or branched above. Leaves up to 1.3 cm long and 1.5 cm broad, ovate-cordate to suborbicular or cordate-orbicular, cordate or slightly cuneate at the base, obtuse or subacute, often apiculate, sometimes the lower few pairs subrosulate. Inflorescence corymbose, dense, few-many-flowered; bracts ovate to linear-subulate, acute, often spreading. Calyx of 5 segments, each 5.5-9 mm long, 1.25-3.5 mm broad, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, mucronate, the sides hyaline, joined for 0.25-0.5 mm, with a keel-wing 0.75-1.5 mm broad, broadest near the base or towards the middle. Corolla yellow; tube 5.5-7.5 mm long; lobes 4-7.5 mm long, 1.5-4 mm broad, spathulate to orbicular-obovate, obtuse or subacute, sometimes apiculate, clawed. Filaments very short or up to 1.5 mm long, inserted in or up to 1 mm below the corolla-sinuses; anthers 1.25-2 mm long, each with a small, often shortly stipitate, round, apical gland, and sometimes with 2 minute basal glands. Style and stigma 5-7 mm long with a relatively large swelling usually well below the middle; stigma capitate or capitate-clavate, 2-lobed.
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Erect or ascending, biennial herb, 0.05-0.25 m high; base branched, simple or branched above. Leaves 13 x 15 mm, cordate, lower sometimes subrosulate. Flowers in dense, few-to many-flowered corymbs, bracteate. Calyx: segments 5, lanceolate. Corolla yellow; tube 5.5-7.5 mm long, clawed. Stamens inserted in or up to 1 mm below corolla sinuses; anthers with round apical glands. Style with large swelling below middle; stigma clavate or capitate-clavate, bilobed. Flowering time Nov.-Apr. Fruit a capsule.
Herb, up to 250 mm high. Stems erect or decumbent. Leaves in many pairs scattered along stems; blade broadly ovate to suborbicular, up to 13 x 15 mm. Flowers: in dense, corymbose, few-to many-flowered cymes; filaments inserted in or up to 1 mm below corolla sinuses; anthers with a small apical and sometimes 2 minute basal glands; style with large swelling below middle; corolla with tube 5.5-7.5 mm, keel wing 0.75-1.50 mm broad, yellow; Jan.
Life form
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.25
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Environment

Light -
Soil humidity 1-5
Soil texture 5-6
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses medicinal
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Cultivation

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Distribution

Sebaea natalensis world distribution map, present in Lesotho, eSwatini, and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:370699-1
WFO ID wfo-0001063389
COL ID 4W7FH
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Sebaea natalensis Sebaea imbricata Sebaea rudolfii Sebaea vitellina