Seddera schizantha
| Family: | Convolvulaceae |
| Full name: | Seddera schizantha Hallier f. |
| Location: | Kyffhäuser (2416AD + 2416CB) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | - |
| English common name(s): | - |
| Synonym(s): | Bonamia schizantha (Hallier f.) A.Meeuse Metaporana angolensis N.E.Br. |
| Status: | Near-endemic |
| Description: | Much-branched shrub up to at least 1 m high. Branches erect to climbing at tips, terete, adpressed-pubescent. Leaves ovate-elliptic to oblong, obtuse and mucronate at apex, rounded to subtruncate or subcordate at base, 10-40 x 4-15 mm, sparsely adpressed-hairy or glabrescent; petiole 1.5-3.0 mm long. Peduncles axillary, solitary or binate, slender, erectopatent, 3-18 mm long, bearing a dense dichasial inflorescence or a single unilateral cyme; inflorescences often collected in terminal panicles. Bracts and bracteoles lanceolate, 1.0-1.5 mm long, adpressed-puberulous. Pedicels filiform, 2-3 mm long. Sepals broadly ovate-spathulate to orbicular, obtusely rotundate, 2 x 1.5-2.0 mm, their margins membranaceous and partly ciliate. Corolla white with a 2 mm long cylindrical tube and a deeply 5-lobed limb; lobes 3.0 x 2.0-2.5 mm, elliptic, obtuse and patent, outside with brownish strigose hairs on mid-petaline zones. Filaments glabrous, dilated at base, 2-3 mm long; anthers nearly 1 mm long. Ovary ovoid, with a few hairs at apex; styles 2, free, equal, filiform, 4.0-4.5 mm long. Capsule subglobose with conical apex, 3.5-4.0 mm long and broad, exserted from calyx, glabrous. Seeds small, minutely punctate, brown or black. Flowering time December to March. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora of Southern Africa) An erect, much-branched undershrub; branches terete, subfuscous, sparsely covered with a minute adpressed pubescence, again branched above; branchlets slender, divaricate, subflexuose. Leaves very shortly petioled, ovate-elliptic, obtuse, minutely mucronate, 1 in. long, 4 lin. broad, grass-green, with sparse adpressed hairs on both surfaces. Peduncles about as long as the leaves, solitary or geminate in the leaf-axils, filiform, strictly erecto-patent, ending in a dense dichasium or a single unilateral cyme, collected into a panicle at the end of the branchlets; bracts and bracteoles minute, lanceolate, approximate at the top of the peduncles; pedicels short, filiform, 1–1.5 lin. long. Flowers small. Sepals chartaceous, with a sparsely ciliolate membranous margin, sub-orbicular, 1 lin. long. Corolla 2.5 lin. long, whitish, cut down to the calyx into 5 ovate obtuse lobes, silky outside, except at the membranous edges, with adpressed unequally forked hairs. Stamens shorter than the corolla; filaments glabrous, abruptly dilated at the base. Ovary ovoid, hairy at the top with a few forked hairs; styles free; stigmas subpeltate, flattened, suborbicular with subemarginate base. Capsule glabrous, 4-valved; seeds 4, minute, glabrous, black. (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: | 29 Apr 2008 |
| 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 |
