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Sebaea confertiflora

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Isotype of Sebaea confertiflora Schinz [family GENTIANACEAE]
Type of Sebaea confertiflora Schinz [family GENTIANACEAE]
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Identification
Sebaea confertiflora Schinz [family GENTIANACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Sebaea sedoides Gilg [family GENTIANACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Sebaea sedoides
  • Sebaea confertiflora

Flora

Entry for Sebaea sedoides var. confertiflora Schinz Marais [family GENTIANACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 7, Part 4, page 3, (1990) Author: J. Paiva and I. Nogueira
Names
Sebaea sedoides var. confertiflora Schinz Marais [family GENTIANACEAE], in Bothalia 7: 464 (1961). —Marais & Verdoorn in Fl. S. Afr. 26: 210 (1963). —Ross in Bot. Surv. Mem. 39: 278 (1972). Type from S. Africa (Transvaal).
Sebaea confertiflora Schinz [family GENTIANACEAE], in Mitt. Geogr. Ges. Lübeck 17: 51 (1903). —Hill & Prain in F.C. 4, 1: 1082 (1909). Type as above.
Information
Perennial herbs up to 65 cm. tall. Stem annual from a rootstock, erect or ascending unbranched or branched, 4-ridged. Leaves 18 x 20 mm. reniform-circular or broadly cordate, rounded to subobtuse, sometimes apiculate at the apex. Flowers yellow, butter yellow or white, in a very dense corymb sometimes much contracted and head-like with relatively large bracts; bracts ovate to lanceolate, or narrowly obovate to oblanceolate, obtuse to acute. Calyx segments 5, 3–8 x 1.75–2.75 mm., lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate or linear-oblong. Corolla tube (3.5)4.5 - 7.5 mm. long; lobes 4.5–7.25 x 2.75 mm. lanceolate. Stamens inserted at the corolla sinuses; filaments up to 1.25 mm. long; anthers 1–2.5 mm., narrowly ellipsoid, with a minute apical gland and sometimes with 2 minute basal glands. Ovary 2.5–3.5 x 0.75, ellipsoid; style 4–7.25 mm. long, with a small or medium swelling below the middle, rarely without a swelling; stigma capitate or capitate-clavate. Capsule 3.5–4 x 1.5–2 mm. ellipsoid. Seeds 0.25–0.3 mm. ellipsoid, numerous, cubical; testa frilled.
Habitat
Marshy ground and grasslands
Altitude range
1300–1500 m.
1500
1300
Distribution
Mozambique MS Barue Mt., c. 15 km. Vila de Gouveia, fl. & fr. 28.iii.1966, Torre & Correia 15487 (LISC).Zimbabwe E Nyanga (Inyanga), fl. & fr. 30.iii.1949, Chase 1632 (BM; K; PRE).
Distribution (external)
Swaziland
S. Africa
Notes
S. sedoides var. sedoides (Swaziland and S. Africa) is generally more robust and more branched than var. confertiflora and var. schoenlandii (Swaziland and S. Africa) and the inflorescences are paniculate-corymbose, whereas the others have the flowers arranged in densely corymbose head-like inflorescences. S. sedoides var. confertiflora is distinguishable from var. scheonlandii by having the filaments up to 1.25 mm. long and inserted in the corolla-sinuses, whereas the latter has the filaments up to 0.5 mm. long and inserted below the corolla-sinuses.

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