Aptosimum arenarium
| Family: | Scrophulariaceae |
| Full name: | Aptosimum arenarium Engl. |
| Location: | Kyffhäuser (2416AD + 2416CB) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | - |
| English common name(s): | - |
| Synonym(s): | - |
| Status: | Endemic |
| Description: | A glandular-pubescent undershrub a few inches to 1.5 ft. high. Branches ascending about 1.5 lin. in diam. rather densely leafy above, leafless and spinescent below; spines about 0.5 in. long, usually straight. Leaves sessile, linear-lanceolate, 1.5-2.5 in. long, 1.5-2.5 lin. broad, acute, scabrid on both surfaces, often with tufts of small leaves in their axils. Flowers subsessile. Calyx-tube very short; segments broadly oblanceolate, 0.25 in. long, broadest above the middle, acute, 1-nerved. Corolla about 0.75 in. long, the narrowest part of the tube as long as the calyx, sparingly pilose outside; lobes broadly obovate, subequal. Anthers slightly hairy. Capsule shorter than the calyx, broadly obovate, compressed at the apex, slightly emarginate, pubescent. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora of Tropical Africa) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer) iNaturalist (Namibia) iNaturalist (southern Africa) Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Photographer: | AA Dreyer |
| Date of photograph: | 25 Feb 2011 |
| Camera make: | Canon |
| Camera model: | PowerShot SX210 IS |
| Lens aperture: | f/3.1 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/125 s |
| ISO speed: | 80 |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
