Sericorema sericea
| Family: | Amaranthaceae |
| Full name: | Sericorema sericea (Schinz) Lopr. |
| Location: | Kyffhäuser (2416AD + 2416CB) |
| ID status: | ID not 100% certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | - |
| English common name(s): | - |
| Synonym(s): | Marcellia sericea (Schinz) C.B.Clarke Sericocoma sericea Schinz |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Much-branched, bushy annual herb with a slender taproot, c. 0.27-0.6 m high; stem and branches slender and rather wiry, terete, young parts green and more or less floccose to sublanate at least when young, usually soon glabrescent. Leaves linear-acicular, subterete-canaliculate, (18)28-50 (60) x 0.5-1 cm, mucronate, glabrous (floccose only when very young), straight or slightly flexuose, usually with axillary short shoots or leaf-fascicles and tufts of floccose hairs. Inflorescence elongating, (to c. 30 cm or more but often less), the axis glabrous to more or less floccose; partial inflorescences finally distant (separated by 1.5-2.5(3) cm), varying from 1-3 flowered as in the generic description, the lateral brushes of hair whitish. Bracts lanceolate, 4-5 mm long, glabrous or somewhat floccose, the darker midrib excurrent in amucro, more or less patent after fruit-fall. Bracteoles of partial inflorescence, deltoid-lanceolate, 4-5 mm long, rather similar to the bracts but more deeply concave basally to accommodate the sterile flowers, glabrous to more or less floccose, at anthesis. Fruiting partial inflorescence a fluffy ball c. 1.5-2 cm in diam. Fruit oblong-ovoid, c. 3.5 mm long, smooth and glabrous throughout; seed c. 3.25 mm long, brown, smooth and shining. (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: | 29 Apr 2011 |
| Camera make: | Panasonic |
| Camera model: | DMC-FZ45 |
| Lens aperture: | f/5.6 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/320 s |
| ISO speed: | 80 |
| Content last updated: | 01 Jun 2020 |
