Aptosimum spinescens
| Family: | Scrophulariaceae |
| Full name: | Aptosimum spinescens (Thunb.) Weber |
| Location: | Kyffhäuser (2416AD + 2416CB) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Doringviooltjie, Kankerbossie, Kankerblarebossie, Rolvarkie, Aambeibos |
| English common name(s): | Violet, Thorn Karooviolet |
| Synonym(s): | Aptosimum abietinum Burch. ex Benth. Aptosimum laricinum Dinter Aptosimum laricinum Dinter var. spinosior Aptosimum scaberrimum Schinz Aptosimum scaberrimum Schinz var. tenuifolium F.E.Weber Aptosimum steingroeveri Engl. Aptosimum steingroeveri Engl. var. glabrum F.E.Weber & Schinz Ruellia spinescens Thunb. |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | A prostrate or spreading undershrub, glabrous or towards the extremities glandular-puberulous, not exceeding 1 ft. high; rootstock thick, woody; branches robust, more or less leafy, spiny; leaves needle-shaped or sublinear, rigid, spiny-pointed, dark green above, paler beneath, sessile, not bordered with white, 0.25 to 1 (usually 0.333–0.5) in. long; flowers usually exceeding the leaves, 0.5–0.75 in. long; calyx rather shortly 5-cleft, puberulous both inside and out, 0.2–0.333 in. long; lobes unequal and ovate or ovate-acuminate; corolla tubular, purple; capsule ovoid, at length oblately spheroidal, with an abrupt short compression at the apex perpendicular to the dissepiment, 0.167 in. long, septicidal; valves bifid, persisting long after the fall of the corolla and the shedding of the seeds; seeds about 12, black, roundly reniform; funicle without a membranous dilatation. (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: | 17 Mar 2007 |
| Camera make: | Canon |
| Camera model: | PowerShot A700 |
| Lens aperture: | f/2.8 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/1000 s |
| ISO speed: | - |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
