Sebaea rara Wolley-dod

Species

Angiosperms > Gentianales > Gentianaceae > Sebaea

Characteristics

Erect, usually unbranched annual herbs up to 6 cm tall. Leaves 5-8 mm long, 1-1.5 mm broad, linear-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, acute, the lower ones sometimes reduced, ovate-lanceolate, subobtuse. Inflorescence of 1-3 few-flowered cymes; bracts linear or subulate, small. Calyx of 5 segments, each 4. 5-5 mm long, 0.75-1 mm broad, lanceolate, acuminate, keeled or very narrowly winged, the sides membranous, joined for 0.75-1.25 mm. Corolla yellow; tube 5.5-6 mm long; lobes 1.5 mm long, 0.6-0.75 mm broad, elliptic, oblong-elliptic or narrowly ovate, obtuse or subacute. Filaments extremely short, inserted 0.25-0.5 mm below the corolla-sinuses; anthers 0.5-0.6 mm long, each with a minute apical gland. Style and stigma 2.75-3 mm long with a small stigmatic swelling well above the middle or below the stigma; stigma capitate or clavate-capitate, 2-lobed or somewhat penicellate.
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Annual to 6 cm. Leaves lanceolate. Flowers 5-lobed, yellow, calyx lobes keeled, stamens inserted below sinuses, style swelling below or confluent with stigma.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.06
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Environment

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Soil texture 5-6
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Usage

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Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
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Cultivation

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Distribution

Sebaea rara world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:370720-1
WFO ID wfo-0001063406
COL ID 4W7G6
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Sebaea rara