Sebaea schlechteri Schinz ex Schltr.

Species

Angiosperms > Gentianales > Gentianaceae > Sebaea

Characteristics

Erect, slender, annual herbs 4-12 cm high. Leaves 0.3-1 cm long, 2-8 mm broad, ovate or ovate-cordate, acute or obtuse, thin. Inflorescence a corymb, many-flowered or reduced to a few-flowered cyme, bracts foliaceous or reduced and small, spreading. Calyx of 4 segments, each 3-5 mm long, 1-2 mm broad, narrowly oblong to obovate-oblong, mucronate with the tip bent backwards, the sides hyaline, joined for 0.5-0.75 mm, margins sometimes slightly erose, with keel-wings broadest below or about the middle, up to 1.25 mm broad. Corolla yellow to white; tube 3-4 mm long; lobes 2.5-4 mm long, 1-2 mm broad, ovate-lanceolate to ovate-cordate or rarely obovate-oblong, obtuse or acute, often apiculate. Filaments 0.5-1.5 mm long, inserted in the corolla-sinuses; anthers 0.5-1 mm long, each with a small apical, sessile or stipitate gland. Style and stigma 2.25-3.25 mm long, with a stigmatic swelling, rarely the swelling inconspicuous; stigma capitate or clavate, 2-lobed.
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Like S. ambigua but flowers yellow or white and calyx lobes strongly keeled throughout.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.04 - 0.12
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Environment

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Soil texture 5-6
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Usage

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Therapeutic use -
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Cultivation

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Distribution

Sebaea schlechteri world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:370732-1
WFO ID wfo-0001063411
COL ID 4W7GH
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Sebaea schlechteri Sebaea gilgii Sebaea ochroleuca