Source:
SSA
Description:
Annual, monoecious herbs. Leaves 2- or 3-pinnate, with ultimate segments linear. Flowers unisexual, in terminal and lateral umbels; involucres of a few bracts. Calyx with 0 or only small teeth. Petals elliptic, with inflexed apex. Disc cushion-shaped. Stamens longer than petals; filaments linear; anthers elliptic, subdidynamous. Fruit elliptic in outline, ribbed; mericarps strongly dorsiventrally flattened, convex on back, concave on face and with winged margins, with or without warty ridges; oil ducts 6, 4 in furrows, 2 on face; carpophore 2-partite. Seeds +/- oblong in cross section. x = 10.
Distribution:
Species 2, South Africa; coastal sands of the Northern and Western Cape, from Port Nolloth to Gansbaai.
Classification:
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