Forsskaolea candida
| Family: | Urticaceae |
| Full name: | Forsskaolea candida L.f. |
| Location: | Naukluft (2416AC) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Brandnetel, Kwaaibul |
| English common name(s): | Namib nettle, Shining sandpaper |
| Synonym(s): | Forsskaolea candida L.f. var. virescens Wedd. Forsskaolea scabra Retz. |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Flowers clustered in leaf axils, inconspicuous, but cupped with very distinctive, broad, green to greenish-maroon papery bracts; bracts rounded or only slightly pointed at tip, with tuft of hairs at base. (from Wildflowers of the southern Namib by C.Mannheimer et. al.) Annual herb up to 1.2 m high. Base of plant often woody. Stems with sparse broad-based curved hairs and denser shorter often hooked stiff hairs. Leaves lanceolate to ovate, 10-75 x 6-40 mm, apex broadly acute, base decurrent, margin crenate with 3-7 pairs of broad irregular teeth, with curved hairs, upper surface with scattered curved hairs, lower surface usually with dense white wool, wool thinner on veins which often have curved hairs; petiole 6-30 mm long; stipules broadly ovate, margin ciliate. Inflorescence with(4-)5-9(-11)-lobed involucre, dimensions of lobes as in key, otherwise as for genus. Flowers as for genus. Achenes shortly stipitate, ovoid, 2-3 x 1.25-2.00 mm, dark brown. Description as for F. viridis except the following: Base of plant often woody. Leaves 10-75 x 6-40 mm, margin with 3-7 pairs of broad irregular teeth; petiole 6-30 mm long. Inflorescence with (4-)5-9(-11)-lobed involucre, dimensions of lobes as in key, otherwise as for genus. (from JSTOR Global Plants website) |
| 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: | 02 Apr 2015 |
| Camera make: | PENTAX |
| Camera model: | PENTAX K-x |
| Lens aperture: | f/5.0 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/250 s |
| ISO speed: | 100 |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
