Dyerophytum africanum Kuntze

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Morphology

Shrublet or shrub up to about 1 m high; branches slender, striate, glaucous. Leaves alternate and rather distant, somewhat fleshy, broadly cuneate-obtuse to obcordate, rarely mucronate at the apex, up to 20 cm long and 1.2 cm broad, more or less coated with calcareous granules, and tapering into a petiole up to about 1 cm long. Flowers patent. Calyx segments ovate-elliptic, abruptly acuminate, about 8 mm long, 4 mm broad, cohering along the margins from about 2/3 of the total length. Corolla tube subcylindric, 8 mm long; lobes cuneate or obcordate, cuspidate in the sinus, 4 mm long, 3 mm broad. Stamens with slender filaments, anthers 1 mm long, sagittate. Ovary oblong, acuminate, 2 mm long, 5-angled; style up to 7 mm long, pubescent in lower 2/3. divided into 2 mm long branches papillate on inner surface. Capsule about as long as the persistent calyx.

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Shrub, up to 1 m tall. Leaves widely spaced, ± spathulate, up to 200 x 12 mm, ± coated with calcareous granules. Flowers in dense terminal spikes, calyx appearing 5-winged, transversely wrinkled, persistent, corolla funnel-shaped, red, pink, yellow or creamcoloured. Fruit a capsule, as long as calyx.

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Habitat

Widely distributed in arid areas.

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Granite domes and sandy beds of seasonal semi-desert streams.

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Distribution

The west from Calvinia to Angola.

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Angola through Namibia to northern and eastern Namaqualand and to Gordonia along Gariep Valley.

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Synonyms

•    Vogelia africana Lam.
  • [A].Caryophyllales

Dyerophytum africanum Kuntze (worldfloraonline.org)

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