Compilation
Pergularia edulis

rootstock partly above ground, very large, up to 2 ft. in diam. (Burchell), more or less tuberculate, light brown; stems up to 2 ft. or more long, twining, procumbent or straggling, often branched, minutely puberulous on the younger parts; leaves often with leaf-tufts or very short leafy branchlets in their axils, usually spreading, sometimes deflexed; petiole 1/2–2 lin. long; blade 1/2–1 1/2 in. long, 1/6– 1/2 in. broad, elliptic, lanceolate, oblong, oblanceolate or more or less obovate, acute, or obtuse or rounded and shortly apiculate at the apex, cuneate or rounded at the base, often wavy at the margins, glabrous on both sides, subcoriaceous; cymes subsessile or on puberulous peduncles up to 1/8 in. long, 2–6-flowered, lateral at the nodes; bracts minute; pedicels 1 1/4–2 lin. long, minutely puberulous, as are the 3/4–1 lin.-long lanceolate acute sepals; corolla puberulous outside and within, dull light yellow; tube 1–1 1/4 lin. long, campanulate; lobes recurved-spreading, about 1/3 in. long, 3/4 lin. broad at the base, linear-attenuate, obliquely subtruncate at the apex, with recurved margins and more or less twisted; corona arising near the base of the corolla, 2 1/2–3 lin. long, white, the lower half tubular and longer than the corolla-tube, divided above into 5 trifid segments alternating with 5 minute entire or bifid lobules or 5 pairs of minute teeth, with the middle tooth of the trifid segments filiform or linear-subulate, shorter than or about equalling the tube and 3–4 times as long as the lateral teeth, which are decurrent as keels within the tube; between the keels at the middle of the tube arise 5 filiform teeth or processes connivent-erect over the white anther-appendages, which reach to the top of the corona-tube. null