Sesamum triphyllum triphyllum
| Family: | Pedaliaceae |
| Full name: | Sesamum triphyllum Welw. ex Asch. var. triphyllum |
| Location: | Namib desert along C28 (2215CD) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Oliebossie, Wilde stokrose, Seeroogblom, Aprilbaadjie, Bokboontjie, Brandogie, Brandboontjie, Wilde sesam |
| English common name(s): | Wild sesame, Thunderbolt flower |
| Synonym(s): | Sesamum gibbosum Bremek. & Oberm. Sesamum lepidotum Schinz |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Corolla lobes pink to mauve with darker purple throat. Erect annual herb, 0.25–2 m high, bushy or simple-stemmed; glabrous except for the mucilage glands. Leaves heteromorphic; the inferior 3–foliate or 3–partite, sometimes with 1–2 additional irregular lateral segments, central lobe longest, 2–10 cm long, with the leaflets or segments up to 2 cm broad; superior leaves simple. Extra-floral nectaries (in the Flora Zambesiaca area) usually single. Calyx deciduous. Corolla 2.5–4 cm long, more or less funnel-shaped, mauve. Capsules oblong in lateral view, abaxially gibbous at the base, c. 40 x 5–7 mm; beak 6–8 mm long, distinctly bent outwards (TAB. 23 fig. F); loculi sometimes with inconspicuous ribs. Seeds more or less horizontal in the loculi, about 2.5 mm x 1.7 mm; wings, especially the two basal ones, inconspicuous; testa faveolate (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora Zambesiaca) |
| 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: | 12 Jun 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 |
