Tetragonia lasiantha Adamson

Species

Angiosperms > Caryophyllales > Aizoaceae > Aizooideae > Tetragonia > Tetragonia subg. Tetragonia

Characteristics

A lax sprawling much branched shrublet up to 60 cm long. Young stems densely papulose-hirsute, the older subglabrous. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 1.5-3 cm long, 0.2-0.7 cm wide, rather abruptly narrowed to a petiole 0.2-0.4 cm long. Leaves quite flat, thinly papulose-hirsute below. Flowers in crowded axillary clusters of 2-5, the upper subtending leaves very small. Flowers sessile or very shortly pedicellate, densely covered with hair-like papillae. Perianth segments broadly ovate, cuccullate. Anthers linear-oblong. Style 1, often slightly bifid, on a minute conical projection. Fruit 3-5 mm long, 3-4 mm diam., slightly narrowed at the base, almost glabrous, when dry with 4 ridges.
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Included in T. saligna Fenzl.
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Distribution

Tetragonia lasiantha world distribution map, present in South Africa

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WFO ID wfo-0001292988
COL ID 55MTQ
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Tetragonia lasiantha