Sebaea repens Schinz

Species

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Characteristics

Perennial herbs with slender, creeping stems, mat-forming. Leaves suborbicular, reniform, or ovate-cordate above the abruptly narrowed petiole-like base, rarely ovate-rhomboid and gradually narrowed towards the base, obtuse to acute, the blade often broader than long. Inflorescence a terminal few-flowered cyme or flowers solitary; bracts similar to the leaves, or the upper ones much narrower. Calyx of 5 segments, each 4-6 mm long, 1-2 mm broad, lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate to ovate, acute, usually mucronate, the sides thin with hyaline margins, joined for 0.5-1.5 mm, keeled or with a thick wing up to 0.75 mm broad. Corolla yellow; tube 5-8 mm long; lobes 4-9 mm long, 1.5-4.5 mm broad, oblanceolate-spathulate to ovate or obovate, clawed, rounded. Filaments 0.75-2 mm long, inserted in the corolla-sinuses; anthers 1.5-3.5 mm long, each with a small, round, yellow, or a fairly big, orange, apical gland. Style and stigma 4.5-7.5 mm long with stigmatic swelling below the middle; stigma capitate, 2-lobed.
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Perennial herb, 0.03-0.06 m high; stems slender, creeping, mat-forming. Leaves broader than long, suborbicular, reniform. Flowers solitary or in terminal, few-flowered cymes, bracteate. Calyx: segments 5, lanceolate to ovate, keeled or with thick wing. Corolla yellow; tube 5-8 mm long; clawed. Stamens inserted in corolla sinuses; anthers with yellow or orange apical glands. Style with swelling below middle; stigma capitate, bilobed. Fruit a capsule.
Procumbent, mat-forming, perennial herb, up to 60 mm high. Stems rooting at nodes. Leaves suborbicular, reniform or ovate-cordate. Flowers: in terminal few-flowered cymes or solitary; filaments inserted in corolla-sinuses; anthers with apical gland small, round and yellow, or big and orange; style with swelling below middle; corolla with tube 5-8 mm long, yellow; Jul.-Jan.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.05 - 0.06
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Soil humidity 4-6
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Distribution

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

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:370722-1
WFO ID wfo-0001063409
COL ID 4W7G8
BDTFX ID -
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Synonyms

Sebaea evansii Sebaea repens