Sebaea procumbens A.W.Hill

Species

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Characteristics

Perennial rosulate herbs; flowering stems elongate, procumbent or erect with smaller more distant leaves. Leaves up to 3.5 cm long and 2.8 cm broad, suborbicular, obovate, obovate-elliptic to almost spathulate, rounded or obtuse, cuneate at the base, the upper leaves smaller, narrower and often acute. Inflorescence of few to several-flowered cymes in a rather lax corymb, or the younger ones subdense and head-like; bracts ovate or elliptic, the upper ones much reduced, thin. Calyx of 5 segments, each 4.75-8 mm long, 1.25-3 mm broad, lanceolate to narrowly ovate or obovate, acute, mucronate, the side hyaline, joined for 0.5-0.75 mm, keeled or with a thick keel-wing up to 0.5 mm broad. Corolla yellow; tube 4.5-8 mm long; lobes 4.5-12 mm long, 2.25-5 mm broad, spathulate-oblanceolate to ovate-oblong or obovate, clawed, rounded, sometimes apiculate. Filaments 0.3-1.75 mm long, inserted in or just below the corolla-sinuses; anthers 1.5-3 mm long, each with an 0.5-1 mm long pale yellow (when dry) oblong or somewhat conical apical gland and 2 small stipitate basal glands or with 2 red basal gland-dots. Style and stigma 4.5-8 mm long, without a stigmatic swelling or with a swelling below the middle; stigma capitate or clavate, 2-lobed.
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Rosulate, perennial herb, 0.08-0.22 m high; flowering stems elongate, procumbent, erect. Leaves 35 x 28 mm, distant leaves smaller, suborbicular or ovate. Flowers in few-to many-flowered cymes. Calyx: segments 5, lanceolate, keeled or with thick keel wing. Corolla yellow; tube 4.5-8.0 mm long, clawed. Stamens inserted in or just below corolla sinuses; anthers with apical glands and 2 basal glands, or 2 red, basal gland dots. Style with or without swelling below middle; stigma clavate or capitate, bilobed. Fruit a capsule.
Procumbent or erect, mat-forming, perennial herb, up to 220 mm high. Stems not rooting at nodes. Leaves densely crowded in lower half; blade suborbicular to obovate-elliptic, up to 35 x 28 mm, upper leaves smaller. Flowers: in few-to several-flowered cymes in a lax corymb; filaments 0.30-1.75 mm long, inserted in or just below corolla sinuses; anthers with apical glands pale yellow; style with swelling below middle or without; corolla with tube 4.5-8.0 mm long, yellow; Nov.-Jan.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.15 - 0.22
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Soil humidity 1-3
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

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Distribution

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

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:370714-1
WFO ID wfo-0001063399
COL ID 4W7FY
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Synonyms

Sebaea procumbens Sebaea conspicua Sebaea rotundifolia