Wahlenbergia decipiens A.Dc.

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Campanulaceae > Wahlenbergia

Characteristics

Stem much-branched, erect, finely scabrous; leaves opposite and alternate, linear, acuminate, subspinous, rigid, subdenticulate; peduncles dichotomous, divaricate, disposed in a terminal racemose-panicle; bracts a little shorter than the pedicels calyx glabrous, with, very short 5-gonous tube; lobes reflexed, spreading, rigid, cuspidate, as long as the tube; corolla tubulose, 5-lobed at the apex, 6-8 times longer than the calyx; capsule minute, 5-angular.
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Intricately branched shrublet to 15 cm. Leaves opposite below, linear-acicular, margins slightly thickened, toothed. Flowers in rigid, divaricate cymes, narrowly bell-shaped, ± 5 mm diam., white or blue, calyx lobes spreading-recurved, pungent, ovary 5-locular, scabrid. Capsules depressed, 5-lobed.
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Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Soil texture 7-9
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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 14 - 28
Germination temperacture (C°) 15 - 21
Germination luminosity light
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Distribution

Wahlenbergia decipiens world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:145700-1
WFO ID wfo-0000819666
COL ID 5BT3V
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Synonyms

Wahlenbergia decipiens Wahlenbergia longisepala Campanopsis decipiens Wahlenbergia longespicata