Triumfetta sonderii Ficalho & Hiern

Species

Angiosperms > Malvales > Malvaceae > Triumfetta

Characteristics

Small erect undershrub about 0.5 m tall with a woody rootstock, much branched; branches stellate-pubescent with both long and short hairs. Leaf-blade up to 40 x 20 mm, elliptic, oblong-lanceolate or oblong-elliptic, apex acute or subacute, base broadly cuneate, margin finely and irregularly dentate-serrate, roughly stellately pilose on both sides, venation reticulate, especially below; petiole up to 2 mm long, stellately pilose; stipules about 3 mm long, subulate, pilose. Inflorescence of axillary 2-4-flowered subumbellate cymes in the upper axils; peduncle up to 6 mm long, slender, pilose; pedicels similar, up to 13 mm long in fruit but shorter in flower; bracts up to 3 mm long, subulate, pilose. Sepals 7-9 mm long, linear, apex hooded and with a subapical horn about 1.5 mm long, stellately pilose outside. Petals yellow, f the length of the sepals, linear-spathulate or narrowly oblong-spathulate, rounded or tridentate at the apex, pilose at the base. Androgynophore 0.5 mm long, glabrous with roughly circular glands opposite the petals at its base; annulus undulate and ciliate at the margins. Stamens 15-20, about the same length as the petals. Ovary globose, densely bristly, 3-locular; style about 5 mm long, veryslender. Fruit indehiscent, up to 40 mm in diam. including the bristles; bristles about 15 mm long, very slender and very numerous, plumose with simple or occasionally binate setulose hairs, terminated by a single slender seta.
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Erect subshrub, ± 0.5 m high. Leaves with blade elliptic, narrowly oblong, up to 40 x 20 mm, roughly stellately pubescent on both surfaces. Flowers: in axillary, 2-4-flowered, subumbellate cymes; petals yellow; Nov.-Apr. Fruit globose, 30-40 mm in diameter, indehiscent with weak, slender plumose bristles.
Small, erect undershrub, 500 mm tall. Fruit indehiscent with weak, slender plumose bristles, 30-40 mm in diameter. Flowers yellow.
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Foliage retention deciduous
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Mature height (meter) 0.5
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Images

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Distribution

Triumfetta sonderii world distribution map, present in Angola and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:835990-1
WFO ID wfo-0000458138
COL ID 595RJ
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Synonyms

Triumfetta sonderii