Zornia linearis E.Mey.

Species

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Characteristics

Perennial. Stems erect, slender, to 40 cm tall, branched, minutely strigose, glabrous. Leaves with 4 leaflets; petiole one-fourth as long as the leaflets, glabrous; leaflets filiform, to 20 mm long, 1 mm broad, punctate, glabrous, one-nerved; petiolule glabrous; stipules punctate, glabrous, 5-nerved. Inflorescence interrupted; bracts lanceolate, acute, to 8 mm long, 4 mm broad, the auricle to 3 mm long, glabrous, ciliate, 5-nerved; calyx to 3.5 mm long, partly strigose, 10-nerved; standard to 8 mm long. Loment with 4-5 articles; articles 2.2 mm long, 2.0 mm broad, the reticulation obscured, glabrous, with numerous hairy bristles 0.2-0.5 mm long, sparsely glandular.
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Erect, perennial herb, up to 40 mm high; stems slender, strigose. Leaves digitately 4-foliolate. Leaflets filiform, pellucid-dotted. Stipules leafy, peltate, acutely spurred at base. Flowers yellow with reddish centre, in interrupted terminal spikes, concealed by slender, ciliate, lanceolate, acute, 5-veined, pellucid-dotted bracts. Flowering time Nov.-Apr. Fruit a loment with 4 or 5 articles, articles reticulate, obscured with many hairy bristles.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.22
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Distribution

Zornia linearis world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:526043-1
WFO ID wfo-0000176633
COL ID 5D85Y
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Synonyms

Zornia linearis Zornia tetraphylla var. linearis