Hermannia juttae
| Family: | Sterculiaceae |
| Full name: | Hermannia juttae Dinter & Engl. |
| Location: | Kyffhäuser (2416AD + 2416CB) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | - |
| English common name(s): | - |
| Synonym(s): | Hermannia rehobothensis Friedr.-Holzh. |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Flowers golden yellow. Perennial. (from JSTOR Global Plants website) Hermannia kirkii is in the form of a herbaceous plant, the numerous stems of which reach 60 cm in height. The leaves are ovoid and the margin shows small teeth. The flower is solitary in the axil of the leaves, provided with stipules, the peduncle is 3 to 4 cm long and has a slightly swollen elbow near the calyx. The corolla is pink or red. This species shows similarities to H. modesta (see file) and some authors had made a subspecies. (from www.planetefleurs.fr, translated from French by Google Translate) Subherbaceous, stems several to many from a woody base, erect, sparingly branched ju st above base, densely stellate-pubescent at base with long white hairs, branches sparsely and inconspicuously stellate-pubescent, often with scattered, very minute glands, especially in upper portion. Stipules ovatelanceolate to linear-lanceolate, somewhat acinaciform, 5-20 mm long, stellate-pubescent. Leaves petiolate, mostly basal with 1 or 2 distant leaves on lower half of branches; blade oblong-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, coarsely crenate or toothed, 20-60 mm long, 8-15 mm broad, occasionally luxuriant plants with larger leaves (Giess 13555), stellate-pubescent, at first densely so with long matted white hairs, later sparsely so with shorter, appressed hairs, nerves prominent below, usually 3 from base; petiole 7-27 mm long. Inflorescence of 1- to 2-flowered cymes, arranged in erect, leafless, lax, terminal, racemose cymes; cymes 1 to 2 at a node; peduncles suberect, 15-35 mm long, appearing glabrous but usually with scattered, minute, subsessile glands; bracts like stipules, though somewhat smaller, bracteoles often 3, 1,5-5 mm long; pedicles slender, 5-15 mm long. Calyx 8-9 mm long, campunulate, wide at mouth, thin becoming papery, appears glabrous but has minute scattered glands and occasionally a few stellate hairs, toothed in upper half, sinuses wide. Petals golden yellow becoming orange-red with age, 8-9 mm long, oblong-oibicular in upper half, narrowing into a fairly broad claw with narrowly infolded margins, glabrous in specimens dissected. Stamens 8 mm long with obovate-oblong, hyaline filaments; anthers acute, ciliate, slightly longer than filaments. Capsule about 8 mm long, enclosed in faded petals and calyx, 5-lobed, stellate-pubescent; style persistent. Found “ on the flats” , in deep sandy soil, “ among Acacias” , “ among Mesembryanthemum” . Recorded from the Rehoboth and Maltahóhe Districts in South West Africa. (from Revision of Hermannia subgenus Hermannia in southern Africa, Verdoorn, 1980) |
| 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: | 03 Mar 2009 |
| Camera make: | Canon |
| Camera model: | PowerShot A700 |
| Lens aperture: | f/4.0 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/800 s |
| ISO speed: | - |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
