PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / COMMELINALES / COMMELINACEAE / COMMELINEAE / COMMELINA / IMBERBIS

Commelina imberbis Ehrenb. ex Hassk.
NE Indigenous
Morphological description

Weedy annuals with long, straggling stems rooting at the nodes, usually glabrous. Leaves broadly linear-acuminate, cordate and amplexicaul at the base, 50-90 x 10-15 mm, pale green, margins often crenulate, minutely and sparsely setaceous with the setae appressed to the leaf-surface. Spathes pedunculate, short and broad, free or fused basally, acute, c. 20 x 10 mm. Upper cyme 0 or represented by a peduncle. Flowers with blue petals. Capsule quadrate with the dorsal locule aborted or rarely 1-seeded; seeds cylindric-ellipsoid, 3 mm long, smooth, farinose with a short thick hilum, slightly marbled. From: Obermeyer, AA; Faden, RB. 1985. Commelinaceae. Fl. S. Africa 4(2): 23-60. [CC BY]

Habitat

Weed-like in behaviour. Said to be weed-killer resistant. From: Obermeyer, AA; Faden, RB. 1985. Commelinaceae. Fl. S. Africa 4(2): 23-60. [CC BY]

Distribution

South West Africa/Namibia, Transvaal and Swaziland; widespread in tropical Africa, from Ethiopia and tropical West Africa; also recorded from the Arabian Peninsula. From: Obermeyer, AA; Faden, RB. 1985. Commelinaceae. Fl. S. Africa 4(2): 23-60. [CC BY]

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
Commelina imberbis Ehrenb. ex Hassk.
Synonym(s)

Commelina kotschyi Hassk.


Classification

KINGDOM Plantae

SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae

PHYLUM Anthophyta

ORDER Commelinales

FAMILY Commelinaceae

TRIBE Commelineae

GENUS Commelina

SPECIES imberbis

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Specimen records

Barcode: PRE0665210-0 Collector(s) & number: Liebenberg, 10 | 1984-9-

South Africa, Transvaal, Brits Dist.; Farm near Brits. Weed in Soyabeans lands.

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Barcode: PRE0891809-0 Collector(s) & number: Victor, JE, 1 | 2010-11-23

South Africa, Gauteng, ± 80 km N of Pretoria on R101 to Warmbaths.

General notes: Growing on freshly disturbed black turf (soil recently upturned for water pipe.) Blue flowered annual. Conf.: L Fish 03.2011

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Barcode: PRE0618136-0 Collector(s) & number: Brenan, JPM, 14259 | 1976-2-14

South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, ZULULAND; UBOMBO; MAKATINI FLATS BELOW JOZINI DAM

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Barcode: PRE0111854-0 Collector(s) & number: Martin, M, PRE 39363 | 1961-12-

Eswatini, BIG BEND

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Barcode: PRE0588763-0 Collector(s) & number: Smook, L, 11443 | 2004-3-2

South Africa, Limpopo, SE of Tolwe; Farm Reserve 248LR Hunter's Camp

General notes: General area open woodland in gentle rolling terrain. Camp on low quartzitic outcrop. Collected in disturbed area around camp in early morning. Growing with C. benghalensis.

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Barcode: PRE0546158-0 Collector(s) & number: Mauve, AA, 5297 | 1980-2-26

South Africa, Limpopo, 57 KM. N. OF PRETORIA TO WARMBATHS

General notes: Growing together with C. benghalensis, C. forskalii and C. africana.

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Barcode: PRE0823190-0 Collector(s) & number: Prentice, CA, 104B | 1997-4-18

South Africa, Mpumalanga, 18 km from Lydenburg turn off on Lydenburg-Machadodorp Road; Badfontein Farm, opposite the Braam Raubenheimer Dam (Kwena Dam); Marantan Hiking Trail. Hill slope.

General notes: Forest. Sandy-loam soil. Moist/damp. Partial shade. Gentle slope. Biotic effect: none seen. Herb 0.1 m tall. Flowers blue. Fruit present. Growing in forest patch. Only 2 plants seen.

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Barcode: PRE0355670-0 Collector(s) & number: Gertenbach, WPD, 5416 | 1975-3-

South Africa, Mpumalanga, KRUGER NAT. PARK

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Barcode: PRE0813602-0 Collector(s) & number: Reid, C, 1982 | 1993-2-9

South Africa, Limpopo, Potgietersrus dist.; Delftzyl Trust Farm near Roedtan on Springbok Flats.

General notes: Large vegetated "kalk" pan.

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1985

FLORA

Eriocaulaceae Obermeyer, AA

Flora of Southern Africa 4(2)9-21

1985

FLORA

Commelinaceae Obermeyer, AA; Faden, RB

Flora of Southern Africa 4(2)23-60

1902

FLORA CHAPTER

Cyperaceae Clarke, CB

In: WT Thiselton-Dyer (ed.). Flora of Tropical Africa 8: 266-524

Lovell Reeve & Co., London

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Status

Status and criteria

NE

Assessor(s)

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Part(s) of plant used Use(s) Reference
Plant Magical powers (Used by: Masai) Burkill, HM. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [All rights reserved]
Plant Fever: reduce Burkill, HM. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [All rights reserved]
Plant Wash: to reduce fever (Used by: Digo) Kokwaro, JO. 1976. Medicinal plants of east Africa. East African Literature Bureau, Nairobi. [All rights reserved]

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