Chascanum pinnatifidum pinnatifidum
| Family: | Verbenaceae |
| Full name: | Chascanum pinnatifidum (L.f.) E.Mey. var. pinnatifidum |
| Location: | Kyffhäuser (2416AD + 2416CB) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | - |
| English common name(s): | Dainty trumpets, Dissected-leaf chascanum |
| Synonym(s): | Bouchea pinnatifida (L.f.) Schauer Bouchea pumila Schauer Buchnera pinnatifida L.f. Plexipus pinnatifidus (L.f.) R.Fern. var. pinnatifidus |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | White flowers A low undershrub, much branched at the base, about 1 ft. high; branches terete, densely and finely pubescent; leaves opposite or subopposite, petiolate, deeply pinnatipartite, rather thick, finely pubescent, 1–1.5 in. long, 0.75 in. broad; segments linear, entire, obtuse or subacute, 1-nerved, 0.25– 0.333 in. long; raceme lax, few-flowered, finely pubescent, about 1 in. (very rarely up to 6 in.) long; flowers white: bracts linear, obtuse or acute, spreading or recurved, finely pubescent, about 2 lin. long; bracteoles subulate, finely pubescent, 0.5 lin. long; calyx-tube unequally and shortly 5-toothed, finely pubescent, 5 lin. long; corolla-tube erect, glabrous without, puberulous in the throat, 10 lin. long; filaments glabrous; fruit oblong, reticulately sculptured, 2–3 lin. long, 0.75–1 lin. broad; areole on the anterior face, oblong, surrounded by a toothed margin, 1–1.5 lin. long. (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: | 03 Mar 2009 |
| Camera make: | Canon |
| Camera model: | PowerShot A700 |
| Lens aperture: | f/4.0 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/160 s |
| ISO speed: | - |
| Content last updated: | 01 Jun 2020 |
