PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / LAMIALES / MARTYNIACEAE / IBICELLA / LUTEA
Erect to prostrate herb, up to 500 mm tall. Leaves reniform, 5-nerved, glandular-pubescent. Inflorescence a dense, terminal raceme. Fruit a cylindric-ovoid, woody capsule with slender curved beak, longer than spiny body. Flowers greenish yellow outside, deeper yellow to orange inside, sometimes red-blotched. From: Retief, E; Herman, PPJ. 1997. Plants of the northern provinces of South Africa: Keys and diagnostic characters. Strelitzia 6: 1-681. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
Robust, ± prostrate, annual herb, carnivorous, 0.45-1.00 m high; stems terete, striate; plant densely viscid, glandular-pubescent. Leaves large, ± opposite, long-petiolate, ± orbicular, base cordate, margins remotely dentate; 5-veined at base. Flowers pendent in dense, terminal racemes; yellow, with red dotted honey guides on lower corolla lobes; peduncles elongating in fruit. Calyx shorter than corolla. Corolla obliquely campanulate; limb sub-bilabiate, flaring. Stamens included; anthers with thecae spreading; staminode 1. Ovary ovate, tapering into long, terete, persistent style, 2-carpellate, 1-locular; stigma 2-lobed. Flowering time summer. Fruit a large, woody, cylindrical-ovoid capsule, tapering into elongated, slender, curved beak; surface with rough protuberances; splitting longitudinally into 2 valves. Seeds obovate, tuberculate. From: Bredenkamp, CL; Smithies, SJ. 2019. Martyniaceae. In: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(2): 1216-1217. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
Escaped from cultivation. From: Retief, E; Herman, PPJ. 1997. Plants of the northern provinces of South Africa: Keys and diagnostic characters. Strelitzia 6: 1-681. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
Weed in maize fields; Sub-Escarpment Grassland, Sub-Escarpment Savanna, Albany Thicket. From: Bredenkamp, CL; Smithies, SJ. 2019. Martyniaceae. In: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(2): 1216-1217. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
Native of Brazil. From: Retief, E; Herman, PPJ. 1997. Plants of the northern provinces of South Africa: Keys and diagnostic characters. Strelitzia 6: 1-681. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
February to March
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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
Martynia lutea Lindl.
Proboscidea lutea (Lindl.) Stapf
| Common name | Language | Reference/barcode | Published as |
|---|---|---|---|
| duiwelsklou | Afrikaans | Bredenkamp, CL; Smithies, SJ. 2019. Martyniaceae. In: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(2): 1216-1217. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. | |
| perdedubbeltjie | Afrikaans | Balsinhas, AA; Engelbrecht, VM; Harding, GB; Joffe, H; Stirton, CH; Wells, MJ. 1986. Catalogue of problem plants in southern Africa, A: Mem. bot. Surv. S. Afr. 53. Mem. Bot. Surv. South Africa 53: 1-658. BRI, Pretoria. | |
| perdedubbeltjie | Afrikaans | Phillips, EP; Smith, CA; Van Hoepen, E. 1966. Common names of South African plants. Mem. Bot. Surv. South Africa 35: 1-642. Government Printer, Pretoria. | |
| yellow devil's claw | English | Balsinhas, AA; Engelbrecht, VM; Harding, GB; Joffe, H; Stirton, CH; Wells, MJ. 1986. Catalogue of problem plants in southern Africa, A: Mem. bot. Surv. S. Afr. 53. Mem. Bot. Surv. South Africa 53: 1-658. BRI, Pretoria. | |
| yellow devil's claw | English | Bredenkamp, CL; Smithies, SJ. 2019. Martyniaceae. In: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(2): 1216-1217. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. | |
| yellow Martynia | English | Balsinhas, AA; Engelbrecht, VM; Harding, GB; Joffe, H; Stirton, CH; Wells, MJ. 1986. Catalogue of problem plants in southern Africa, A: Mem. bot. Surv. S. Afr. 53. Mem. Bot. Surv. South Africa 53: 1-658. BRI, Pretoria. |
Classification
KINGDOM Plantae
SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae
PHYLUM Anthophyta
ORDER Lamiales
FAMILY Martyniaceae
GENUS Ibicella
SPECIES lutea
15 results for Ibicella lutea (Lindl.) Van Eselt.
Barcode: PRE0647829-0 Collector(s) & number: Casely, s.n. | 1979-11-26
South Africa, Eastern Cape, FORT BEAUFORT
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Barcode: NBG0260606-0 Collector(s) & number: Unknown, STEU 15124 | 1921-12-
South Africa, Northern Cape, Kimberley.
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Barcode: PRE0186629-0 Collector(s) & number: School, College, PRE 43098 | 1938--
South Africa, Gauteng, PRETORIA; CAPITAL PARK
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Barcode: PRE0819547-0 Collector(s) & number: Morgan, D, PRE 61860 | 1988-5-4
South Africa, Eastern Cape, Bathurst: Hazyview; Erf 631.
General notes: Weed of garden. Leaves up to 25 cm across. Flowers yellow with brown speckles. Fruits green, sticky hairs covering leaves and fruits. Common name "Yellow Devil's Claw". P.300 Henderson & Anderson - Common weeds of S.A. Conf. M. Welman
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Barcode: PRE0186633-0 Collector(s) & number: Galpin, EE, 13982 | 1936-2-19
South Africa, Limpopo, WATERBERG; NABOOMSPRUIT
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Barcode: PRE0724801-0 Collector(s) & number: Withey, R, s.n. | 1988-2-10
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, PIETERMARITZBURG; PROPERTY ON VOORTREKKER ROAD
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Barcode: PRE0186630-0 Collector(s) & number: Swierstra, CJ, TRV 23175 | 1923-1-
South Africa, Gauteng, PRETORIA
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Barcode: PRE0186635-0 Collector(s) & number: Galpin, EE, 14847 | 1936-4-
South Africa, Limpopo, WATERBERG; NABOOMSPRUIT
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Barcode: PRE0186631-0 Collector(s) & number: Repton, JE, 4771 | 1958-2-
South Africa, Gauteng, PRETORIA DIST.; HORTICULTURAL EXP. P
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Barcode: PRE0186628-0 Collector(s) & number: Lawrence, PRE 43096 | 1931-3-5
South Africa, Gauteng, PRETORIA; HATFIELD
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Barcode: PRE0186632-0 Collector(s) & number: Codd, LEW, 6361 | 1951-2-1
South Africa, Gauteng, PRETORIA DIST.; PRINSHOF EXP STA
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Barcode: PRE0707539-0 Collector(s) & number: Jacot Guillarmod, AFMG, 7442 | 1974-4-1
South Africa, Eastern Cape, KING WILLIAM'S TOWN
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Barcode: PRE0876389-0 Collector(s) & number: Koekemoer, M, 5077 | 2018-5-12
South Africa, Limpopo, E of Nylstroom on road to Marble Hall.
General notes: Localised but common.
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Barcode: PRE0789038-0 Collector(s) & number: Geldenhuys, R, PRE 61168 | 1990-1-26
South Africa, Western Cape, Near Moorreesburg; Farm Constantia.
General notes: Wheatfield. Weed with yellow flower. Ex Herbarium Stellenbosch (STE) Det: E.G.H. Oliver
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
This map contains point-based occurrences at different locations
2019
SERIES CHAPTER
Martyniaceae Bredenkamp, CL; Smithies, SJIn: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(2)1216-1217
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria
1997
SERIES
Plants of the northern provinces of South Africa: Keys and diagnostic characters Retief, E; Herman, PPJStrelitzia 6: 1-681
National Botanical Institute, Pretoria
1977
BOOK
Hortus Third: A Concise Dict. of Plants Cult. in the United States and Canada Bailey, EZ; Bailey, LHMacMillan, New York
1957
No results found for Ibicella lutea (Lindl.) Van Eselt.
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