Triumfetta obtusicornis Sprague & Hutch.

Species

Angiosperms > Malvales > Malvaceae > Triumfetta

Characteristics

Prostrate or trailing perennial with branches about 1 m long; rootstock woody; branches rather sparsely-stellate-pilose. Leaf-blade up to 40 x 38 mm, broadly elliptic to very broadly ovate, apex obtuse or acute, base rounded or subcordate, margin crenate-serrate, sparsely stellate-pubescent on the nerves and veins, otherwise glabrous, 5-7 nerved from the base, venation reticulate on both sides; petiole up to 6 mm long, pilose; stipules 4-6 mm long, subulate, pilose. Flowers normally in 3-flowered cymes in the upper axils, the cymes often paired in each axil; peduncles up to 7 mm long, stellate-pubescent; pedicels similar, up to 8 mm long; bracts about 3 mm long, subulate, pilose. Sepals about 8 mm long, linear, hooded at the apex, with a rather stout subapical horn 1 mm long, rather densely stellate-pilose outside. Petals yellow, almost as long as the sepals, oblanceolate, pilose at the base. Androgynophore 0.3 mm long, glabrous, with suborbicular glands opposite the petal bases; annulus undulate, ciliate at the margin. Stamens 8-10; filaments 5-6 mm long. Ovary globose 2-locular, densely setulose, setulae with a single apical spinule; style about 8 mm long. Fruits 8 x 6 mm including the rather stiff bristles, elipsoid; bristles up to 5 mm long, stellately pubescent with a single terminal caduceus seta.
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Prostrate or trailing perennial herb. Leaf blades broadly elliptic to very broadly ovate, apex obtuse or acute, base rounded or subcordate. Bristles on fruit with single terminal caducous seta. Flowers yellow.
Life form perennial
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Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Soil texture 5-6
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Distribution

Triumfetta obtusicornis world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:835917-1
WFO ID wfo-0001142648
COL ID 595P5
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Synonyms

Triumfetta obtusicornis