Zygophyllum prismatocarpum
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Habit
20 Feb 2018
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Stems, leaves and fruit
20 Feb 2018
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Leaves and fruit
20 Feb 2018
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Leaves and fruit
20 Feb 2018
| Family: | Zygophyllaceae |
| Full name: | Zygophyllum prismatocarpum E.Mey. ex Sond. |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Langlootspekboom, Penbos |
| English common name(s): | Tall zygophyllum |
| Synonym(s): | - |
| Status: | Near-endemic |
| Description: | Shrubby; leaves simple, sessile, roundish-obovate, narrowed at base; flowers panicled at the ends of the branches; filaments 8–10 times longer than the deeply bifid, obtuse scales; capsule prismatic, sharply 5-angled. Stem erect, terete, with grey bark; branches erecto-patent, angularly-compressed, greenish, ramulose. Internodes 0.5–1 inch long. Leaves spreading, sub-amplexicaul, with the midrib conspicuous at the base only, carnoso-coriaceous, glaucous-green, fragile when dry, 6–8 lines long, 4–6 lines wide at the apex, 1 line at base, some smaller; in ß. with the base sub-cordate, often not narrowed, 5–6 lines long and wide. Stipules minute, often wanting. Upper flowering branchlets crowded in a pyramidal panicle, which in our specimens is 2–3 inches long. Pedicels solitary in the forks, nodding, 1–2 lines long. Sepals oval, 1.5 lines long. Petals cream-coloured, twice as long as the calyx. Stamens as long as the petals. Scales very minute, scarcely visible to the naked eye, bifid to the base, the segments truncate, obtuse, very entire, hyaline. Capsule brownish-purple, oblong, cuneate, 4–5 lines long, 1.5 lines wide above, obtuse, tipped with a short style, deeply 5-furrowed and somewhat winged. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora Capensis) |
| 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 |
