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Struthiola ciliata Lam.

Species

Angiosperms > Malvales > Thymelaeaceae > Struthiola

Characteristics

Shrub, up to 1.5 m tall, with adpressed-hairy to white-woolly, tetragonal branches. Leaves opposite, linear-lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, faintly ribbed beneath, ciliate. Flowers axillary, cream-coloured, pink or reddish, hypanthium sometimes glabrescent, scales oblong, shorter to longer than perigonal hairs.
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Shrub to 1.5 m with adpressed-hairy to white-woolly, tetragonal branches. Leaves opposite, linear-lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, faintly ribbed beneath, ciliate. Flowers axillary, cream-coloured, pink or reddish, hypanthium sometimes glabrescent, scales oblong, shorter to longer than perigonal hairs.
A shrub. It grows 1.5 m tall. It has white wooly hairs. The leaves are opposite and narrow. They are faintly ribbed underneath. The flower are cream, pink or red and in the axils of leaves.
Life form annual
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 1.5
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Environment

It is a subtropical plant.
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Usage

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Edible nectars
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Cultivation

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Distribution

Struthiola ciliata world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:832844-1
WFO ID wfo-0001142421
COL ID 6ZYH6
BDTFX ID -
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Synonyms

Belvala angustifolia Belvala spicata Belvala tuberculosa Belvala virgata Gnidia ciliata Struthiola flavescens Struthiola floribunda Struthiola longiflora Struthiola rustiana Struthiola tuberculosa Struthiola angustifolia Struthiola ciliata Struthiola virgata Struthiola lucens Struthiola pillansii Passerina ciliata Struthiola concava Struthiola glauca Struthiola schlechteri Struthiola vahlii Struthiola incana Struthiola pubescens Struthiola rubra Belvala glauca Belvala longiflora Belvala lucens Struthiola ciliata subsp. ciliata Struthiola virgata var. incana Struthiola virgata var. linnaeana Struthiola virgata var. pubescens Struthiola ovata var. breviflora
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