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Commelina fluviatilis [family COMMELINACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Commelina fluviatilis [family COMMELINACEAE]
Information
Aquatic or semi-aquatic, glabrous herb with long, floating or trailing stems rooting at nodes, side-branches short, erect. Leaves few, emergent, narrowly linear, 50-250 x 1-3,5 mm, sheath up to 30 mm long, striate. Spathes usually solitary, terminal, peduncuÂlate, folded, 10-20 mm long, straight or falÂcate, acute to acuminate, striate. Cymes with upper exserted, 1-flowered, lower c. 4-flowered, shortly exserted at anthesis. FlowÂers small with petals long-clawed, c. 15 mm long (in dried flowers), pale mauve, blue or white. Stamens with 3 lower fertile; stami-nodes 3, shorter. Ovary 5-ovuled; style c. 12 mm long. Capsule oblong-apiculate, up to 7 mm long 2(-4?)-seeded; seeds greyish brown, usually ellipsoid, 2-3 mm long, irregularly foveolate.
Use
2. Commelina fluviatilis Brenan in Mitt, bot. StSamml. Munch. 6: 253 (1967); Schrei-ber et al. in F.S.W.A. 157: 8 (1969). Type: Zambia, Mpika district, Luitikila River, RichÂards 14984 (K,holo.!).
Range
Recorded from Zambia, Botswana and northern South West Africa/Namibia; on riverbanks trailing into the water or in moist sandy places. Map 20.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Commelina fluviatilis [family COMMELINACEAE]
Information
Aquatic or semi-aquatic, glabrous herb with long, floating or trailing stems rooting at nodes, side-branches short, erect. Leaves few, emergent, narrowly linear, 50-250 x 1-3,5 mm, sheath up to 30 mm long, striate. Spathes usually solitary, terminal, peduncuÂlate, folded, 10-20 mm long, straight or falÂcate, acute to acuminate, striate. Cymes with upper exserted, 1-flowered, lower c. 4-flowered, shortly exserted at anthesis. FlowÂers small with petals long-clawed, c. 15 mm long (in dried flowers), pale mauve, blue or white. Stamens with 3 lower fertile; stami-nodes 3, shorter. Ovary 5-ovuled; style c. 12 mm long. Capsule oblong-apiculate, up to 7 mm long 2(-4?)-seeded; seeds greyish brown, usually ellipsoid, 2-3 mm long, irregularly foveolate.
Use
2. Commelina fluviatilis Brenan in Mitt, bot. StSamml. Munch. 6: 253 (1967); Schrei-ber et al. in F.S.W.A. 157: 8 (1969). Type: Zambia, Mpika district, Luitikila River, RichÂards 14984 (K,holo.!).
Range
Recorded from Zambia, Botswana and northern South West Africa/Namibia; on riverbanks trailing into the water or in moist sandy places. Map 20.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Commelina fluviatilis [family COMMELINACEAE]
Information
Aquatic or semi-aquatic, glabrous herb with long, floating or trailing stems rooting at nodes, side-branches short, erect. Leaves few, emergent, narrowly linear, 50-250 x 1-3,5 mm, sheath up to 30 mm long, striate. Spathes usually solitary, terminal, peduncuÂlate, folded, 10-20 mm long, straight or falÂcate, acute to acuminate, striate. Cymes with upper exserted, 1-flowered, lower c. 4-flowered, shortly exserted at anthesis. FlowÂers small with petals long-clawed, c. 15 mm long (in dried flowers), pale mauve, blue or white. Stamens with 3 lower fertile; stami-nodes 3, shorter. Ovary 5-ovuled; style c. 12 mm long. Capsule oblong-apiculate, up to 7 mm long 2(-4?)-seeded; seeds greyish brown, usually ellipsoid, 2-3 mm long, irregularly foveolate.
Use
2. Commelina fluviatilis Brenan in Mitt, bot. StSamml. Munch. 6: 253 (1967); Schrei-ber et al. in F.S.W.A. 157: 8 (1969). Type: Zambia, Mpika district, Luitikila River, RichÂards 14984 (K,holo.!).
Range
Recorded from Zambia, Botswana and northern South West Africa/Namibia; on riverbanks trailing into the water or in moist sandy places. Map 20.
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