Gisekia africana africana
| Family: | Viscaceae |
| Full name: | Gisekia africana (Lour.) Kuntze var. africana |
| Location: | Kyffhäuser (2416AD + 2416CB) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Volstruisdruiwe, Rooi-rankopslag |
| English common name(s): | Ostrich herb |
| Synonym(s): | Miltus africanus Lour. Gisekia africana (Lour.) Kuntze (1898) Gisekia miltus Fenzl (*) Gisekia mozambicensis Spreng. (*) Gisekia pentadecandra Moq. |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Petals bright pink, sometimes white. Inflorescences umbelliform, sessile or subsessile in the axils of foliage leaves. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora of Tropical East Africa) Mericarp papillose to spiny. (Gisekia (Gisekiaceae): Phylogenetic relationships, etc., Bissinger et al, American Journal of Botany, 2014) |
| 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: | 20 Dec 2008 |
| Camera make: | Canon |
| Camera model: | PowerShot A700 |
| Lens aperture: | f/4.0 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/200 s |
| ISO speed: | - |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
