Melianthus pectinatus Harv.

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Melianthus are evergreen shrubs, often grown as herbaceous perennials, with handsome pinnate leaves and small, tubular flowers in narrow, erect racemes

Melianthus pectinatus/RHS Gardening

Melianthus pectinatus, Harv. (M. Trimenianus, Hook. f.). Rigid shrub, with densely set pectinate-pinnate lvs. on short twigs, the rachis winged: 1fts. 8-10 pairs, linear, entire, with revolute margins, white-tomentose beneath: fls. dull red, in more or less whorled racemes, the peduncles purple; petals 4, long-clawed; upper calyx-segm. cuspidate. B.M. 6557. G.W. 4, p. 39.

Melianthus pectinatus - Gardenology.org - Plant Encyclopedia and Gardening wiki

• Fl. Cap. 1(Add.): 21* (1860)
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• This name is reported by Francoaceae as an accepted name in the genus Melianthus (family Francoaceae).

  The record derives from Tropicos which reports it as an accepted name (record 20500016)

Morphology

Shrub. Leaves up to 140 mm long; stipules paired, acuminate, 8 mm long, 1 mm wide; rachis unwinged to wings as broad as terminal leaflet; leaflets 7-27, narrowly linear to lanceolate, sinuate to dentate, dorsal surface stellately hairy over sunken veins, sometimes sparsely pilose over blade, ventral surface with a dense mat of short stellate hairs with large emergent stellate hairs. Inflorescence a sub-terminal raceme, erect to pendulous, elongating to 70-140 mm. Flowers in whorls of 2-4 per node; bracts tapering, apex acute, 10 mm long, 4 mm wide; pedicels elongate to 25 mm in fruit. Sepals green, posterior lateral sepal 20 mm long, odd sepal ovate, acute, gibbous, 10 mm long. Petals red or pink, 16 mm long. Nectary horseshoe shaped. Ovary with 2 or 4 ovules per carpel. Fruit sharply 4-winged, membraneous to parchment-like, glabrous, veins prominent, 10-15 mm long.

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Foetid shrub, up to 1 m tall. Leaves imparipinnate, leaflets 11-27, sinuate to serrate, stellately hairy, densely so beneath. Flowers in ± terminal, erect racemes, emerging above leaves, petals red, longer than sepals. Fruit a sharply 4-winged, glabrous capsule, with conspicu ous parallel veins.

• Provided by: [A].e-Flora of South Africa

Habitat

Among rocks and dry riverbeds.

• Provided by: [A].e-Flora of South Africa

Melianthus pectinatus Harv. (worldfloraonline.org)

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