Sebaea scabra Schinz

Species

Angiosperms > Gentianales > Gentianaceae > Sebaea

Characteristics

Erect annual herbs 6-20 cm high, simple or branched from the base. Leaves up to 1-5 cm long and 1 cm broad, ovate-cordate or nearly suborbicular-ovate, acute or subacute. Inflorescence few-many-flowered; bracts ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. Calyx of 5 segments, each 5-8 mm long, 1.5-2 mm broad, oblong-lanceolate to oblong-elliptic, acuminate, the sides membranous opaque, brittle when dry, joined for 0.5-0.75 mm, with a semi-cordate, strongly veined keel-wing which is up to 2.5 mm broad near the base, the older ones often with scabrid-papillose margins. Corolla yellow; tube 6.5-7 mm long; lobes 6.5-11 mm long, 2.5-6 mm broad, oblanceolate-oblong to obovate, rounded, often apiculate. Filaments 0.5-1 mm long, inserted in the corolla-sinuses; anthers 2-2.5 mm long, their tips recurved, each with a large oblong apical and 2 small, stipitate, basal glands. Style and stigma 5-6.5 mm long with a stigmatic swelling near the base; stigma large, clavate, 2-lobed.
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Annual to 20 cm. Leaves ovate. Flowers 5-lobed, yellow, calyx lobes with strongly veined scabrid wings, stamens inserted in sinuses, style swelling below middle base.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.06 - 0.2
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Environment

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Soil texture 5-6
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

Usage

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Cultivation

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Distribution

Sebaea scabra world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:370728-1
WFO ID wfo-0001063410
COL ID 4W7GD
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Sebaea scabra