Limeum fenestratum fenestratum
| Family: | Molluginaceae |
| Full name: | Limeum fenestratum (Fenzl) Heimerl var. fenestratum |
| Location: | Sossusvlei area (2415CB) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Lintblommetjie, Klosaarbossie |
| English common name(s): | - |
| Synonym(s): | Limeum fenestratum (Fenzl) Heimerl var. frutescens (Dinter) Friedrich Semonvillea fenestrata Fenzl |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Erect or procumbent, sometimes spreading annual (sometimes short-lived perennial) herb up to c. 90 cm tall, glabrous; stems stiff and freely much-branched. Leaves petiolate, deciduous, alternate, subopposite or fasciculate; laminas 10–70 × 0.5–5 mm, linear to linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, tapering base, mucronate, entire; petiole up to 4 mm long. Inflorescence a very diffuse terminal panicled cyme. Flowers whitish, subsessile, separated by large internodes, with small whitish membranous bracteoles. Perianth-segments up to 2–5 mm long, unequal, ovate to oblong, acute, with whitish membranous margins. Staminodes 0–5, evanescent, long-clawed with oblong limb, equalling perianth-segments. Stamens usually 7; filaments ciliate at base. Ovary compressed. Mericarps compressed-orbicular, longer than perianth-segments, puberulous, dorsally tuberculate, the tubercles radiating from the centre, surrounded by a transparent, radiately nerved membranous wing, or wing absent. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora Zambesiaca) Erect or procumbent branched annual or short-lived perennial herb, up to 90 cm tall. Leaves alternate, sub-opposite or clustered, linear to narrowly lanceolate, 1-7 cm long; margin entire. Flowers whitish, widely spaced in a very open, branched terminal inflorescence. Fruit splitting into 2 mericarps, flattened, round, surrounded by a radiately veined wing. (from Flora of Zimbabwe 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: | 20 Mar 2007 |
| Camera make: | Canon |
| Camera model: | PowerShot A700 |
| Lens aperture: | f/4.0 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/1000 s |
| ISO speed: | - |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
