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Ammannia pusilla

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Name

Identification
Ammannia pusilla Sond. [family LYTHRACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Ammannia prieuriana Guill. & Perr. [family LYTHRACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Ammannia auriculata Willd. [family LYTHRACEAE ] Verified by Koehne, E.,
Related name
  • Ammannia auriculata
  • Ammannia pusilla
  • Ammannia prieuriana

Flora

Entry for AMMANNIA pusilla Sond. [family LYTHRACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 514, (1894) Author: (BY W. SONDER.)
Names
AMMANNIA pusilla Sond. [family LYTHRACEAE], in Linnæa, Vol. 23, p. 40
Information
annual; stem erect, simple, quadrangular, glabrous; leaves lanceolate, sessile with auriculate base, paler beneath; axillary corymbs 3–7-flowered, pedunculate, bracteolate; flowers 4-petalous, 4-androus. 2–3-uncial. Leaves usually reflexed, a little scabrous above, 3–4 lines long, 1 line wide. Corymbs of the lower axils on longer peduncles, about as long as the leaves. Calyx nearly 1 line long, shortly 8-toothed. Petals 4, minute, when dry, blueish. Capsule roundish, red-brown, terminated by a style of the same length, 1-celled, many-seeded. It comes near A. auriculata, DC.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Wet places near Sandriver, May, Zeyher. (Herb. Sd.)

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