Source:
SSA
Description:
Sparsely branched shrubs, up to 600 mm high, branching at base; stems smooth, up to 5 mm in diameter. Leaves slender, up to 35 mm long, free towards bases, acute, sharply 3-angled, smooth with serrated margins. Flowers terminal, solitary, pedicellate, bracteate, up to 50 mm in diameter. Sepals 5, unequal. Petals bright yellow. Stamens very short, broadening and connate at base; staminodes 0. Nectary unknown. Ovary 5-locular; placentas parietal. Fruit a 5-locular capsule, of Lampranthus type, to 12 mm in diameter; expanding keels diverging and extending into an awn with broad wings; covering membranes covering locules; closing bodies 0. Seeds large, up to 1.6 mm long, surface rough. F lowering in early summer. D istinguishing characters: shrub with distinctly curved branches; leaves serrated; flowers solitary, large and yellow.
Distribution:
Species 1: Circandra serrata (L.) N.E.Br., in a small area in the Western Cape and has been collected from the surroundings of Ceres, Tulbagh and Villiersdorp, at low altitudes of up to 500 m.
Classification:
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