Zygophyllum cordifolium
| Family: | Zygophyllaceae |
| Full name: | Zygophyllum cordifolium L.f. |
| Location: | Next to C13 between Rosh Pinah and Aus (2716DB) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Geldjiebos, Geldjiesbos, Sjielingbos |
| English common name(s): | - |
| Synonym(s): | Roepera cordifolia (L.f.) Beier & Thulin |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Shrubby; leaves simple, sessile, cordate-orbicular; flowers axillary, solitary; filaments twice as long as the truncate-lacerate scales; capsule oblong, four-winged. Stem a foot or more high, ash-coloured. Branches and branchlets opposite or alternate, spreading, terete or somewhat angular. Internodes of the branchlets 0.5–1 inch long or longer. Leaves mostly sub-cordate at base, some oblique at base, or half-cordate, these 1–3-nerved, the mid-nerve subdivided, those mostly 5-nerved from the base, all very entire, somewhat fleshy, very delicately netted with veins, about an inch long and wide, the upper smaller. Stipules lanceolate, 1 line long. Flowers 4–5-cleft. Peduncles about as long as the leaves. Sepals ovate-oblong, 3 lines long. Petals yellowish, broad, thrice as long as the calyx. Stamens 1/2 the length of the petals. Style subulate. Capsule 8 lines long, 4 lines wide, netted, obtuse at each end, the wings 1 line long. Seeds blackish. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora Capensis) Sprawling shrublet to 60 cm, with obovate, succulent simple leaves. (from www.za.ispot.org.uk 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 Feb 2018 |
| Camera make: | Canon |
| Camera model: | EOS 7D |
| Lens aperture: | f/9.0 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/200 s |
| ISO speed: | 100 |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
