Entry for SESAMUM capense Burm. fil. [family PEDALIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 454, (1904) Author: By O. STAPF.
Information
stem erect, simple or branched, 1/2–6 ft. high, slender or stout, angular and sulcate or subterete, more or less mealy-glandular in the upper part, otherwise glabrous; leaves digitately 5–3-foliolate; leaflets obovate-oblong to linear or lanceolate, subobtuse or obtuse, entire, narrowed at the base into a petiolule, or the outer sessile or fusing below, the intermediate the longest, 1–2 1/2 in. long, 1–9 lin. broad, rarely more or less mealy-glandular on both sides, glaucous above; petioles 3–1 in. long, subebracteolate; nectaries sessile; calyx 2 1/2 lin. long, more or less pubescent; segments lanceolate, acuminate; corolla violet outside, violet-purple inside, pubescent, obliquely campanulate; tube up to 1 in. long, very slightly curved at the base; lobes about 1/2 in. long, subequal; capsule 1 1/2–1 3/4 in. long, 3–4 lin. broad, sparingly pubescent, each valve strongly 3-nerved and produced at the base into 2 rounded or obscurely 3-lobed knobs or short horns, beak about 5 lin. long, subulate-acuminate from a triangular base; seeds 4 lin. long including the wing which runs all round, faces muriculate-foveolate. null
