Lyperia formosa

PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / LAMIALES / SCROPHULARIACEAE / LIMOSELLEAE / LYPERIA / FORMOSA

Lyperia formosa Hilliard

VU Indigenous Endemic

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Morphological description

Annual herb scarcely blackening on drying, main stem c. 200-400 mm tall, simple at first, later loosely branched from the base and above, branches ascending, glandular-puberulous, hairs up to c. 0.3 mm long, very sparse glistening glands as well, leafy. Leaves opposite, c. 15-47 x 6-20 mm, elliptic tapering to a petiolar part up to 1/3 total leaf length, rapidly shorter upwards, apex ± obtuse, margins serrate, both surfaces hairy as stem. Flowers few to many in lax terminal racemes. Bracts alternate, leaf-like, lowermost c. 10-23 x 5-10 mm Pedicels (lowermost) c. 18-23 mm Calyx tube c. 0.2 mm long, lobes c. 4.2-5 x 1 mm, glandular-pubescent, hairs up to 0.5-1 mm long, sparse glistening glands as well. Corolla tube c. 24 x 1.4 mm, cylindric, expanded in throat to c. 2.8 mm, limb nearly regular, c. 14 mm across, lobes c. 5.2-6 x 4.2-5 mm, broadly and bluntly spathulate, tube and backs of lobes glandular-puberulous, hairs up to 0.4-0.5 mm long, very few glistening glands on upper part, upper surface of lobes glabrous except for a broad band of minute glandular hairs around mouth, band of upward-pointing clavate hairs in throat, limb white, base of each lobe with a broad orange patch 3-toothed at apex. Stamens 2, filaments 1.2 mm long, anthers c. 1.7 mm long, included, staminodes 2.0.3 mm long. Stigma c. 1-1.3 mm long, included. Style c. 20 mm long, glandular-puberulous. Ovary c. 3.5 x 2 mm, densely clad in glistening glands and glandular hairs c. 0.3-0.6 mm long. Capsule (young) c. 14 x 6 mm, hairy as ovary. Seeds immature. In full flower and young fruit near the end of August. From: Hilliard, OM. 1994. The Manuleae: a tribe of Scrophulariaceae. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. [All rights reserved]

Like L. antirrhinoides but flowers larger, ± 14 mm diam. and tube ± 24 mm long. From: Manning, JC; Goldblatt, P. 2012. Scrophulariaceae: Lyperia Benth. In: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 744-745. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]

Diagnostic description

The species is closely allied to L. tenuiflora, but it is a more robust plant, mostly broader in the leaf than L. tenuiflora (ratio of length: breadth c.2-3: 1 versus 4-5: 1) with longer pedicels (lowermost c. 18-23 mm, not 4-11 mm), and larger, hairier ovaries and capsules. The corolla limb is white (shades of pink and mauve in L. tenuiflora) and the colour-patterning around the mouth more pronounced. From: Hilliard, OM. 1994. The Manuleae: a tribe of Scrophulariaceae. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. [All rights reserved]

Habitat

Shallow, rocky soils. From: Manning, JC; Goldblatt, P. 2012. Scrophulariaceae: Lyperia Benth. In: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 744-745. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]

Distribution

Langeberg: Robertson to Montagu. From: Manning, JC; Goldblatt, P. 2012. Scrophulariaceae: Lyperia Benth. In: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 744-745. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]

Flowering time

August

Altitude

0 to 460 m

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Residence status

Occurrence in the Flora of Southern Africa (FSA) countries and South African provinces. Residence status indicates if a taxon is indigenous, endemic, naturalised or invasive in a specific region. This data is based on specimen records and literature

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Names and Sources

Accepted name

Lyperia formosa Hilliard

Synonym(s)

Classification

KINGDOM Plantae

SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae

PHYLUM Anthophyta

ORDER Lamiales

FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

TRIBE Limoselleae

GENUS Lyperia

SPECIES formosa

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Specimen records

Barcode: PRE0591238-0 Collector(s) & number: Morley, M, 420 | 1985-8-23

South Africa, Western Cape, VOETPADSBERG.; DORINGKLOOF FARM.; S FOOTHILLS OF VOETPADSBERG. ON ROCK

General notes: On river bank, shallow soil on rock. Occasional herb, 40-50 cm tall. Flowers white with orange centre.

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Barcode: PRE0705212-0 Collector(s) & number: Morley, M, 420 | 1985-8-23

South Africa, Western Cape, Voetpadsberg; Doringkloof farm; S foothills of Voetpadsberg. (Grid changed to 3319DB by S.J. Smithies 1/2012. It was 3319DA.)

General notes: On river bank, shallow soil on rock. Occasional herb, 40-50 cm tall. Flowers white with orange centre.

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Barcode: NBG0193723-0 Collector(s) & number: Morley, M, 420 | 1985-8-23

South Africa, Western Cape, Farm Doringkloof, southern foothills of Voetpadsberg.

General notes: On riverbank, shallow soil on rock. Occasional herb, 40-50 cm tall. Flowers white with orange centre.

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