Streptocarpus umtaliensis B.L.Burtt

Species

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Gesneriaceae > Streptocarpus

Characteristics

Corolla c. 11–13 mm. long, pure white or very rarely violet-blue, pubescent outside, glabrous inside except for minute unicellular hairs on roof and floor of tube and inside of lobes; tube 7–9 mm. long, 3–4 mm. diam., subcylindrical, directed downwards then forwards, somewhat ventricose below mouth, base slightly oblique and slightly saccate above; limb straight, lobes of both lips directed forwards, all lobes oblong, subequal, c. 2 mm. long.
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Ovary c. 4 mm. long, appressed-pubescent; style c. 4.5 mm. long, glabrous above, slightly dorsoventrally compressed; stigma elliptic, stomatomorphic, papillose.
Stamens arising in lower third of corolla tube, filaments c. 3 mm. long, slightly thickened and glandular above; anther lobes c. 1 mm. long; staminodes minute.
Leaf solitary, oblong, up to c. 20 × 10 cm., base cuneate to subcordate, margin finely dentate-serrate, both surfaces appressed-pubescent.
Capsule about 35 mm. long, 1.5 mm. broad, crowned with the persistent style base.
Calyx divided to the base into 5 lanceolate segments c. 2.5 × 1 mm., pubescent.
Inflorescences several from base of midrib, many-flowered.
Pedicels 5–20 mm. long, both pubescent.
Seeds 0.7–0.9 mm. long, reticulate.
Peduncles up to c. 25 cm. long.
Bracts minute.
Monocarpic.
Life form perennial
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 15 - 30
Germination temperacture (C°) 12 - 18
Germination luminosity light
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Distribution

Streptocarpus umtaliensis world distribution map, present in Zimbabwe

Conservation status

Streptocarpus umtaliensis threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:383044-1
WFO ID wfo-0001065047
COL ID 52XVL
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Synonyms

Streptocarpus umtaliensis