PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / CARYOPHYLLALES / KEWACEAE / KEWA / ARENICOLA
Prostrate annual to 5 cm. Leaves terete, fleshy. Flowers in axillary umbels on peduncles shorter than leaves, whitish, stamens 3-5. From: Manning, JC; Goldblatt, P. 2012. Molluginaceae. In: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 622-626. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY] As: Hypertelis arenicola Sond.
Glaucous, prostrate herb, 0.02-0.12 m high; branches ascending, purplish with age. Leaves alternate, filiform to cylindrical, ± fleshy, slightly glandular; stipules entire, membranous, adnate to leaf base, forming dilated, amplexicaul sheath. Inflorescences axillary, 3-5-flowered umbels; peduncles up to 8 mm long. Perianth segments 5, the outer 2 or 3 subsucculent, the inner narrower, membranous, cucullate, whitish or pink. Staminodes 0. Stamens 3(5). Stigmas 3-5, short. Flowering time Dec.-Apr. Fruit a membranous, rounded loculicidal, 3-5-valved capsule. Seeds brown or black, kidney-shaped, shining, minutely punctuate. From: Bredenkamp, CL. 2019. Molluginaceae. In: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(2): 1228-1234. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY] As: Hypertelis arenicola Sond.
Saline coastal flats. From: Manning, JC; Goldblatt, P. 2012. Molluginaceae. In: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 622-626. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY] As: Hypertelis arenicola Sond.
Damp, brackish, fine-grained soils near coast; Eastern Fynbos-Renosterveld. From: Bredenkamp, CL. 2019. Molluginaceae. In: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(2): 1228-1234. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY] As: Hypertelis arenicola Sond.
Cape Peninsula to Port Elizabeth. From: Manning, JC; Goldblatt, P. 2012. Molluginaceae. In: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 622-626. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY] As: Hypertelis arenicola Sond.
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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
Published in: Phytotaxa 181 (4): 241 (2014)
Hypertelis arenicola Sond., in Harvey & Sonder (1860)
Published in: Fl. Cap. (Harvey) 1: 145 (1860)
Classification
KINGDOM Plantae
SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae
PHYLUM Anthophyta
ORDER Caryophyllales
FAMILY Kewaceae
GENUS Kewa
SPECIES arenicola
20 results for Kewa arenicola (Sond.) Christenh.
Barcode: NBG1478917-0 Collector(s) & number: Helme, NA, 8781 | 2016-6-18
South Africa, Northern Cape, Bokkeveld; 20 km NW of Nieuwoudtville; Avontuur 671; pans.
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Barcode: NBG1508851-0 Collector(s) & number: Van Rooyen, L, 13 | 1981-1-20
South Africa, Western Cape, Velddrif. Rocher Pan Nature Reserve, in pan (empty) btw house & inspection quarters.
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Barcode: PRE0457207-0 Collector(s) & number: Salter, TM, 8708 | 1941-12-5
South Africa, Western Cape, CAPE PENINSULA; RUGBY
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Barcode: NBG1481654-0 Collector(s) & number: Helme, NA, 8469 | 2015-3-23
South Africa, Western Cape, Kommetjie, shallow seasonal pan 30 m east of Skilpadvlei.
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Barcode: NBG1508852-0 Collector(s) & number: Van Rooyen, L, 97 | 1981-1-21
South Africa, Western Cape, S.W. CAPE. Rocher Pan Nature Reserve, in dry riverbed near south gate.
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Barcode: NBG1508853-0 Collector(s) & number: Hugo, L, 2276 | 1980-2-4
South Africa, Western Cape, Wupperthal S.W. Cape.Houdenbek river dam sistern on Excelsior Farm.
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Barcode: SAM0055538-0 Collector(s) & number: Adamson, RS, 3307 | 1941-12-
South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Division, Milnerton
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Barcode: PRE0552511-0 Collector(s) & number: Hugo, L, 2276 | 1980-2-4
South Africa, Western Cape, HOUDENBEKRIVER DAM; EXCELSIOR FARM
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Barcode: PRE0406257-0 Collector(s) & number: Paterson, FM, 2219 | 1912-8-
South Africa, Eastern Cape, UITENHAGE DIV.; REDHOUSE; NR REDHOUSE
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Barcode: PRE0404565-0 Collector(s) & number: Zeyher, CLP, 619 | 1847--
South Africa, Western Cape, Greenpoint
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2019
SERIES CHAPTER
Molluginaceae Bredenkamp, CLIn: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(2)1228-1234
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria
2014
2012
SERIES CHAPTER
Molluginaceae Manning, JC; Goldblatt, PIn: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 622-626
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria
2006
BOOK
Checklist of the Flowering Plants of Sub-Saharan Africa Klopper, RR; Chatelain, C; Banninger, V; Spichiger, RSANBI, Pretoria
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