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Tricliceras lanceolatum (A.Fern. & R.Fern.) R.Fern.

Species

Angiosperms > Malpighiales > Passifloraceae > Tricliceras

Characteristics

Leaves all similar, up to 15 × 1·6 cm., oblong-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, unlobed, tapering towards the base and the very acute apex, shallowly undulate and with minute teeth at the margin, sometimes with some triangular teeth near the base and a pair of sessile glands just at the base, thinly membranous, glabrous everywhere or sparsely puberulous towards the base; petiole 1–2 mm. long to absent.
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Stem up to 60 cm. high, erect, simple or branched from the base, puberulous (hairs very short and thin, arcuate, antrorse, subappressed) and sparsely setose (setae c. 0·5 mm. long, yellowish towards the apex, brownish at the swollen base).
Flowers (4)5–9 per raceme; peduncles up to 25 cm. long, sparsely hairy at the base, glabrous upwards; pedicels c. 2 mm. long in flower, up to 4 mm. long in fruit.
Petals c. 22 mm. long, orange, attenuate-cuneate towards the base, adnate to the calyx-tube for 3·5 mm., the limb c. 9 × 5 mm., rhombic-obovate.
Calyx sparsely setose, without hairs; tube 10 mm. long; lobes 5 mm. long, oblong-linear, acute, with a brown seta below the apex.
Brevistylous flowers: filaments of the longer stamens ±12 mm. long, those of the shorter ones ± 9 mm. long; anthers 3 mm. long.
Capsules up to 5·5 × 0·15 cm., glabrous.
Ovary 3 mm. long; styles 3 mm. long.
Seeds 2·25–3 × 1–1·25 mm.
Flower-buds acute.
Annual herb.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
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Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.6
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Distribution

Tricliceras lanceolatum world distribution map, present in Mozambique

Conservation status

Tricliceras lanceolatum threat status: Vulnerable

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:836516-1
WFO ID wfo-0000458340
COL ID 7CSLY
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Synonyms

Tricliceras lanceolatum Wormskioldia lanceolata
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