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Wissadula rostrata (Schumach.) Hook.F.

Species

Angiosperms > Malvales > Malvaceae > Wissadula

Characteristics

Leaf-lamina 4–13 × 1·5–8 cm., subentire, apex long-caudate, base truncate to cordate, upper surface minutely stellate-hairy and rather dark green, lower surface paler and more stellate-hairy to tomentose; petiole up to 5 cm. long, floccose-tomentose; pedicels 1–3 cm. long (elongating to c. 6 cm. in fruit), articulated towards the apex, puberulous to stellate-floccose.
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Shrub, 0.75-1.25 m high. Leaves discolorous, apex long-caudate, base truncate to cordate. Pedicels 10-30 mm long, elongating to 60 mm in fruit. Flowers cream or yellow.
Suffrutex 0·75–1·25 m. tall, branched from the base; stems stellate-pubescent, glabrescent and ultimately covered with a thin greyish bark.
Fruit angularly obconic; mericarps c. 7 × 3 mm., glabrescent.
Calyx c. 3 mm. long, stellate-pubescent; lobes acute.
Seeds c. 3 × 3 mm., black.
Staminal tube glabrous.
Petals c. 4 mm. long.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support -
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 1.0 - 1.25
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Environment

Usually in light shade on rocky and loamy soils and in riverine vegetation in tropical Africa.
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Soil texture 3-8
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Hardiness (USDA) -

Usage

Uses fiber medicinal
Edible -
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Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
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Distribution

Wissadula rostrata world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:564918-1
WFO ID wfo-0000427209
COL ID 5C2GH
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Wissadula rostrata Sida rostrata
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