Dyerophytum africanum
| Family: | Plumbaginaceae |
| Full name: | Dyerophytum africanum (Lam.) Kuntze |
| Location: | Farm Neuras, along D850 (2416AD) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Pronkbos |
| English common name(s): | Desert stattice |
| Synonym(s): | Vogelia africana Lam. |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Shrublet or shrub up to about 1 m high; branches slender, striate, glaucous. Leaves alternate and rather distant, somewhat fleshy, broadly cuneate-obtuse to obcordate, rarely mucronate at the apex, up to 20 cm long and 1 -2 cm broad, more or less coated with calcareous granules, and tapering into a petiole up to about 1 cm long. Flowers patent. Calyx segments ovate-elliptic, abruptly acuminate, about 8 mm long, 4 mm broad, cohering along the margins from about 2/3 of the total length. Corolla tube subcylindric, 8 mm long; lobes cuneate or obcordate, cuspidate in the sinus, 4 mm long, 3 mm broad. Stamens with slender filaments, anthers 1 mm long, sagittate. Ovary oblong, acuminate, 2 mm long, 5-angled; style up to 7 mm long, pubescent in lower 2/3. divided into 2 mm long branches papillate on inner surface. Capsule about as long as the persistent calyx. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora of Southern Africa) Stems slender, woody, much branched, 2 ft. or more high, sulcate, glaucous; leaves alternate, often distant and few, fleshy, broadly cuneate, rounded, emarginate or cordate at the apex, sometimes mucronate, more or less coated with calcareous granules, up to 9 lin. long and 6 lin. wide, tapering into the 4 lin. long petiole; flowers patent; calyx-segments ovate, abruptly acuminate, 4 lin. long, 2 lin. wide; corolla-tube subcylindrical, 4 lin. long; lobes cuneate or obcordate, cuspidate in the sinus, 2 lin. long, 1.5 lin. broad; filaments very slender; anthers 0.5 lin. long, sagittate; ovary oblong, acuminate, 1 lin. long; style 3.5 lin. long including the 1 lin. long arms, spreadingly hairy; capsule longer than the persistent calyx. (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: | 03 Jul 2011 |
| Camera make: | Panasonic |
| Camera model: | DMC-FZ45 |
| Lens aperture: | f/5.0 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/250 s |
| ISO speed: | 80 |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
