Succulent-leaved, branching subshrub, up to 300 mm tall, resprouting from a deeply rooted, woody base. Branches mostly erect, slender, striate, young shoots sparsely villose. Leaves subopposite, sometimes appearing opposite, distantly spaced throughout, sometimes deciduous below, sessile, linear to narrowly lanceolate, 5-8 x 1.5-2.0 mm, almost semiterete, adaxially flattened, pale glaucous green, insertion on stem marked by a narrow brownish band, young leaves lightly pubescent with filiform, 1-seriate hairs on both surfaces, older leaves glabrescent, minutely granular from remnants of hair bases under a 10 x lens, each comprising a swollen basal cell and narrowly tubular distal cell directed towards apex, anatomy non-Kranz. Inflorescence resembling a terminal spike, up to 70 mm long, of up to 15 subopposite, axillary flower clusters. Flowers bisexual, 2 per axil (rarely with additional, aborted accessory flower), sessile, without bracteoles, protogynous; perianth campanulate, mostly 5-lobed, lobes ± ovate, ± 2.0-2.5 x 1 mm, connate for up to ± 1 mm, succulent, thinly villose, pale glaucous green, each with small, glabrous, dorsal tubercle below apex, margins membranous in distal third; stamens mostly 5, perigynous, shortly exserted, filaments slender, ± sigmoid, anthers dorsifixed, spreading horizontally at anthesis, broadly oblong-sagittate, 1.25 x 1.25 mm, apex ± smooth, dehiscence latrorse, pale yellow, pollen yellow; ovary ovoid, ± 0.5 x 0.5 mm, unilocular; ovule 1, basal; style short, stigmas 2, filiform, ± 0.75 mm long, entirely covered with papillae, reddish, well exserted prior to anthesis, ± withering thereafter. Fruiting perianth accrescent, free from pericarp, ± 4 mm diam., depressed-spherical, lobes dark and ± leathery, each ornamented distally with an enlarged, dorsal tubercle, tubercles succulent, rugose, 1.5 mm diam., pale brown and glistening, lobes below the tubercle shortly keeled, margins of lobes remaining narrowly membranous in distal third. Fruit an achene, with a membranous pericarp; mature seeds unknown. From: Snijman, DA; Manning, JC. 2013. Chenopodiaceae: Chenolea convallis, a new species from Western Cape Province, South Africa. Bothalia 43(1): 80-84. [CC BY]
This new species is easily identified by opposite to subopposite leaves and the distinctive fruiting perianth, which develops a large wart-like, dorsal outgrowth below the apex of each lobe. From: Snijman, DA; Manning, JC. 2013. Chenopodiaceae: Chenolea convallis, a new species from Western Cape Province, South Africa. Bothalia 43(1): 80-84. [CC BY]
Grow in stony loam. From: Snijman, DA; Manning, JC. 2013. Chenopodiaceae: Chenolea convallis, a new species from Western Cape Province, South Africa. Bothalia 43(1): 80-84. [CC BY]
Chenolea convallis is currently known from just one population near the foot of the west-facing slopes of the low hills on the eastern banks of the Greater Brandvlei Dam near Worcester, Western Cape. From: Snijman, DA; Manning, JC. 2013. Chenopodiaceae: Chenolea convallis, a new species from Western Cape Province, South Africa. Bothalia 43(1): 80-84. [CC BY]
February to March
From 212 m and higher
This map contains point-based occurrences at different locations
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: Bothalia 43(1): 80 (2013)
Type: South Africa, Western Cape, Worcester District, Greater Brandvlei Dam area, slopes on E side of Dam, 23 February 2012, D. Snijman & A. le Roux 2368 (NBG, holo.; KASSEL, MO, PRE, iso.)
Classification
KINGDOM Plantae
SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae
PHYLUM Anthophyta
ORDER Caryophyllales
FAMILY Amaranthaceae
SUBFAMILY Chenopodioideae
TRIBE Salsoloideae
GENUS Chenolea
SPECIES convallis
3 results for Chenolea convallis Snijman & J.C.Manning
Barcode: NBG0277839-0 Collector(s) & number: Le Roux, A, 910A | 2011-6-2
South Africa, Western Cape, Worcester. Greater Brandvlei Dam.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0277838-0 Collector(s) & number: Snijman, DA, 2368 | 2012-2-23
South Africa, Western Cape, Worcester Dist. Greater Brandvlei Dam area, slopes on E side of Dam. 33°45'54.5"S 19°26'11.6"E.
General notes: Alt. 212 m. Fynbos. Breede Shale Renosterveld. Hill slope, moderate slope. Stony soil, loam. Seasonally moist. Sandstone/shale. Full sun. Scattered plants growing singly, up to 1 m tall, succulent, glaucous - pale green. In full flower. Flowers inconspicuous. Harvester termites gather its twigs for burial.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0277840-0 Collector(s) & number: Le Roux, A, 910 | 2011-2-21
South Africa, Western Cape, Worcester. Greater Brandvlei Dam.
General notes: Alt. 217 m. Fynbos. Geology: Bokkeveld. Hill slope. W aspect, moderate slope. Stony soil, loam. Seasonally moist. Sandstone/shale. Full sun. Material: cuttings. Rare. Plant height, 0.20 m. Flowers present, yellow. Fruit present. Flowering period: February.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
This map contains point-based occurrences at different locations
2013
PERIODICAL/JOURNAL
Chenopodiaceae: Chenolea convallis, a new species from Western Cape Province, South Africa Snijman, DA; Manning, JCBothalia 43(1)80-84
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