Perennial, with a short stem with tufted leaves and 5-15 prostrate annual branches with whorled leaves. Stems and leaves often red. Annual branches 10-25 cm long, with internodes 3-12 cm long. Basal leaves crowded, persistent but in young plants withering about flowering time, linear, flat, about 2 cm long, 1.5-2 mm wide, not narrowed to the base but slightly widened to the tip. Stem leaves shorter and narrower, 1-2 cm long, often revolute. Stipules white, opaque, not sheathing, 2-3 cm long and about as wide, entire at the base but in the upper part cut into narrow lobes or coarse hairs. Stipules on the stems often forming a distinct bulge below the leaves. Inflorescences terminal and lateral, spreading, forking 1-3 times, the ultimate branches pseudoracemose. Peduncles slender, 1-3 cm long. Pedicels 0.4-1 cm long. Perianth segments about 3 mm long, distinctly connate at the base. Disc white, of 3 broad obtuse lobes. Stigmas thick, white. Fruit rounded, slightly longer that the perianth. Seeds dark brown, very finely granular, flattened-biconvex, with a distinct border. From: Adamson, RS. 1958. The South African species of Aizoaceae: IV. Mollugo, Pharnaceum, Coelanthum and Hypertelis. J. S. African Bot. 23: 11-65. [CC BY]
Short-stemmed perennial, with 5-15 prostrate, annual branches 0.10-0.25 m long. Leaves: basal ones linear, flat, up to 20 mm long, withering at flowering time; cauline leaves whorled, shorter and narrower, often revolute. Stipules on stems bulged below leaves; white opaque, not sheathing, basally entire, divided into lobes or coarse hairs in upper part. Inflorescences terminal and lateral, spreading; peduncles up to 30 mm long, forking 1-3x, ultimate branches pseudoracemose. Nectariferous disc white, of 3 broad, obtuse lobes. Stigmas thick, white. Flowering time Aug.-Nov. Fruit rounded, slightly longer than perianth. Seeds dark brown, very finely granular, flattened, biconvex, distinctly bordered. 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]
Subshrub with sprawling, annual branches, 5-15 cm. Leaves in a basal tuft and whorled above, linear. Flowers in lax, terminal and axillary cymes, white, ± 3 mm long. 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]
This species is allied to P. dichotomum but distinguished by the habit, the broader flatter leaves, the not sheathing stipules, and the less spreading inflorescence. It has some resemblance to P. thunbergii but is separated by the basal leaf-tuft, the leaves not narrowed to the base, the larger stipules, and the inflorescences. From: Adamson, RS. 1958. The South African species of Aizoaceae: IV. Mollugo, Pharnaceum, Coelanthum and Hypertelis. J. S. African Bot. 23: 11-65. [CC BY]
Sand or gravel at low altitudes. From: Adamson, RS. 1958. The South African species of Aizoaceae: IV. Mollugo, Pharnaceum, Coelanthum and Hypertelis. J. S. African Bot. 23: 11-65. [CC BY]
Sandy slopes, riverbanks; Albany Thicket, Sub-Escarpment Grassland, Eastern Fynbos-Renosterveld, Albany Thicket. 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]
Sandy slopes, often damp sites. 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]
On the southern coastal belt. From: Adamson, RS. 1958. The South African species of Aizoaceae: IV. Mollugo, Pharnaceum, Coelanthum and Hypertelis. J. S. African Bot. 23: 11-65. [CC BY]
Grootwinterhoek Mtns to Somerset East. 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]
August to November
70 to 789 m
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Names and Sources
Classification
KINGDOM Plantae
SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae
PHYLUM Anthophyta
ORDER Caryophyllales
FAMILY Molluginaceae
GENUS Pharnaceum
SPECIES fluviale
19 results for Pharnaceum fluviale Eckl. & Zeyh.
Barcode: SAM0074882-0 Collector(s) & number: Adamson, RS, 4940 | 1953-8-30
South Africa, Western Cape, Caledon Division, Pringel Bay
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0404832-0 Collector(s) & number: Heinecken, TJE, 216 | 1968--
South Africa, Western Cape, GOUKAMMA NAT. RES.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0630351-0 Collector(s) & number: Bohnen, P, 7801 | 1981-2-14
South Africa, Western Cape, RIVERSDALE; TAKKIESFONTEIN, DROEVLAKTE
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Barcode: PRE0404834-0 Collector(s) & number: Muir, J, 107 | 1914-8-
South Africa, Western Cape, ALBERTINIA; COMMOAGE
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Barcode: PRE0614695-0 Collector(s) & number: Burgers, CJ, 2060 | 1979-7-28
South Africa, Western Cape, DE HOOP; POTBERG NAT. RES.; DE HOOP FLATS ALONG PUBLIC ROAD
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Barcode: NBG1509624-0 Collector(s) & number: O'Callaghan, 94 | 1984-5-23
South Africa, Western Cape, Goukamma River Mouth. 1km from mouth.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG1509625-0 Collector(s) & number: Hugo, L, 2004 | 1979-11-
South Africa, Western Cape, Oudtshoorn S. Cape. Ruygte Valley near Sedgefield.
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Barcode: PRE0672108-0 Collector(s) & number: Van Wyk, CM, 1812 | 1984-9-17
South Africa, Western Cape, DE HOOP.; BUFFELSFONTEIN.; ON ROAD TO RYSPUNT. LIMESTONE OUTCROPS.
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Barcode: SAM0011212-0 Collector(s) & number: Phillips, EP, 1754 | 1916-11-
South Africa, Western Cape, Tulbagh, Great Winterhoek, Sneeuwgat Valley
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Barcode: PRE0404835-0 Collector(s) & number: Adamson, RS, 4615 | 1952-9-22
South Africa, Eastern Cape, FORT BEAUFORT
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Barcode: PRE0694417-0 Collector(s) & number: Germishuizen, G, 4205 | 1986-12-4
South Africa, Western Cape, RIVERSDALE DIST.; 34 KM FROM RIVERSDALE ON ROAD TO BLOMBOS
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: SAM0048964-1 Collector(s) & number: Rogers, FA, 29032 | --
South Africa, Western Cape, Caledon District
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Barcode: PRE0527805-0 Collector(s) & number: Hugo, L, 728 | 1976-10-16
South Africa, Northern Cape, BETW. MATJIES RIVER AND DWARS RIVER ON RD. BETW. CERES AND ALGERIA
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Barcode: SAM0036914-0 Collector(s) & number: Zeyher, 484 | -9-
South Africa, Eastern Cape, Uitenhage District, on the hills by the Zwartkop River, in the first altitude.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0607364-0 Collector(s) & number: Hugo, L, 1955 | 1979-11-7
South Africa, Western Cape, MOSSEL BAY; PINEDEW FARM, EAST OF WILDERNESS
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
This map contains point-based occurrences at different locations
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
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
1958
PERIODICAL/JOURNAL
The South African species of Aizoaceae: IV. Mollugo, Pharnaceum, Coelanthum and Hypertelis Adamson, RSJournal of South African Botany 23: 11-65
No results found for Pharnaceum fluviale Eckl. & Zeyh.
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