Description ⁴

Erect, perennial herb, up to 90 cm tall, all parts stellate pubescent. Leaves with 3-7 mm long, filiform or linear stipule, and 0.5-1.5 cm long petiole; blade 2-5 cm long, 1-4 cm broad, ovate-oblong, coarsely serrate-crenate, entire towards the base, obtuse or somewhat truncate, stellate pubescent on both sides, darker above, cinereous below, penninerved, at base mostly 5 nerved. Flowers white, axillary, solitary or paired; pedicel 5-8 mm, in fruit up to 10 mm, rarely up to 15 mm long, with or without articulation at the top. Calyx 5 lobed, c.4 mm across, 4.6 mm long, slightly angular; lobes triangular-deltoid, acuminate, 2.3 mm long, 3-4 mm broad. Corolla 1-1.5 cm across; petals 7-8 mm long, 4-5 mm broad, oblique, unguiculate, claw hairy. Staminal tube up to 3 mm long, hairy. Carpels 7-8; locule, style branches and stigmas as many as carpels. Fruit depressed globose, 3-5 mm in diameter, incompletely enclosed by calyx; mericarps 2-3 mm long, radially 2-2.5 mm broad, dorsally 1-1.5 mm broad, reticulate towards the margin, not so towards the centre, glabrous except awns, indehiscent; awns 2,0.5 mm long, connivent, inflexed, Seeds 1.5-2 mm long, somewhat reniform, slightly longitudinally grooved on the dorsal surface, brown to dark brown.

Sources and Credits

1. (c) MAPR, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/services/media.php?env=botany&irn=10223464
2. (c) 2001 California Academy of Sciences, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?seq_num=29573&one=T
3. (c) Bart Wursten, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/images/13/139100-1.jpg
4. (c) Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/4960121

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