Sesuvium sesuvioides
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Habit
12 Jun 2008
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Habit
12 Jun 2008
| Family: | Aizoaceae |
| Full name: | Sesuvium sesuvioides (Fenzl) Verdc. |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | - |
| English common name(s): | Desert pink |
| Synonym(s): | - |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | A prostrate or straggling succulent annual or short-lived perennial herb. Stems usually rough with warty outgrowths, not rooting at the nodes, 2–30 cm. long or more. Leaves alternate (by reduction), subopposite, or opposite, narrowly elliptic to broadly ovate, petiolate; the blade 7–20 mm. long, 2–11 mm. wide; the petiole 3–10 mm. long, scarious-winged at the base. Flowers solitary, 5–14 mm. long, sessile. Calyx-lobes equal, narrowly-triangular, acute, each with a dorsal apiculus 1–2 mm. long from just below the apex, pink inside, green outside. Stamens 5-many, free. Ovary of 2 carpels, 2-locular; styles 2. Seeds about 2–10 in each loculus, rugose, black. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora of Tropical East Africa) |
| 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 |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
