Sebaea ramosissima Gilg

Species

Angiosperms > Gentianales > Gentianaceae > Sebaea

Characteristics

Annual herbs, simple or much-branched below, erect or spreading-ascending, up to 25 cm high. Leaves up to 1.2 cm long and 1 cm broad, ovate-cordate or ovate, obtuse or subacute, thin, somewhat crowded near the base; the upper ones smaller and further apart. Inflorescence lax with long pedicels, few-many-flowered; bracts ovate or ovate-lanceolate, or very small and subulate, spreading or recurved. Calyx of 5 segments, each 4.5-6 mm long, 1-1.75 mm broad, linear-lanceolate to narrowly ovate-lanceolate, acuminate-mucronate, their sides membranous, opaque or hyaline, keeled or with a narrow wing up to 0.5 mm broad. Corolla yellow; tube 3.5-6 mm long; lobes 5.5-8 mm long, 2-4.5 mm broad, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, acute, obtuse, or sometimes toothed at the apex. Filaments 0.25-0.75 mm long, inserted in the corolla-sinuses; anthers 2-3 mm long, each with 3 medium-sized or small stipitate glands. Style and stigma 5-6.5 mm long with a swelling near the base; stigma clavate, 2-lobed.
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Annual herb, up to 0.25 m high. Leaves up to 12 x 10 mm, ovate, crowded near base, upper ones smaller and further apart. Flowers in few-to many-flowered cymes, lax; pedicels long, bracteate. Calyx: segments 5, lanceolate; keeled or narrowly winged. Corolla yellow; tube 3.5-6.0 mm. Stamens inserted in corolla sinuses; anthers with 3 stipitate glands. Style with swelling near base; stigma clavate, bilobed. Fruit a capsule.
Life form annual
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

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Soil humidity 1-3
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Usage

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Cultivation

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Distribution

Sebaea ramosissima world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:370719-1
WFO ID wfo-0001063405
COL ID 4W7G5
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Sebaea ramosissima