Lophiocarpus polystachyus
| Family: | Chenopodiaceae |
| Full name: | Lophiocarpus polystachyus Turcz. |
| Location: | Kyffhäuser (2416AD + 2416CB) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Sandaarbossie, Sandaalbossie |
| English common name(s): | - |
| Synonym(s): | Lophiocarpus burchellii Hook. Microtea burchellii (Hook.f.) N.E.Br. Microtea gracilis A.W.Hill Microtea polystachya (Turcz.) N.E.Br. Wallinia polystachya (Turcz.) Moq. |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Subshrubs or herbs with woody base to 0.5 m tall, usually much branched, stems ascending, glabrous. Leaves fasciculate, (sometimes some leaves single and alternate), 5–30 x 0.4–2 mm, filiform, mucronate, subsucculent, glabrous, sub-sessile or with petiole to 2 mm long. Inflorescence terminal, to 25 (30) cm long; rhachis glabrous. Flowers greenish-yellow, clustered in threes, glabrous; central flower subtended by a bract 1–1.5 x 0.8–1 mm, ovate, acuminate, sometimes faintly 3-lobed, membranous, glabrous; lateral flowers each subtended by a bract 0.8–1 x 0.6–0.8 mm, ovate, membranous, glabrous and usually 2 bracteoles 0.5– 0.75 x 0.3–0.5 mm, ovate, membranous, glabrous. Sepals 1–1.5 x 0.5–1 mm, oblong to broadly elliptic, apex rounded. Stamens: filaments 1–1.3 mm long; anthers c. 0.3–0.5 mm long, oblong to broadly elliptic. Ovary 0.5–1.3 mm in diam., glabrous; stigmas 0.8–1 mm long. Fruit 1–1.5 mm in diam., ridged, sometimes muricate or warty between ridges. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora Zambesiaca) undershrub, branched, about 1 ft. high; leaves spathulate-linear, subcoriaceous, 0.5– 0.75 in. long, slightly mucronate, apex incurved; inflorescence spicate, 6–9 in. long, rigid; bracts and bracteoles orbicular-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, irregularly toothed or subentire, half as long as perianth; perianth-lobes 5, equal, elliptic or ovate-elliptic, obtuse; stamens 4; filaments longer than the perianth-lobes; ovary ovoid; stigmas 4, filiform, spreading; fruit globose, smooth, 0.75 lin. in diam. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora Capensis) |
| 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: | 27 Sep 2008 |
| Camera make: | Canon |
| Camera model: | PowerShot A700 |
| Lens aperture: | f/4.0 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/500 s |
| ISO speed: | - |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
