Published November 11, 2025 | Version v1
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FIGURE 5 in Petalidium sebrabergense (Acanthaceae), a new species from Namibia

  • 1. Independent Researcher, P.O. Box 21168, Windhoek, Namibia & H.G.W.J. Schweickerdt Herbarium, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 0002 South Africa & Ongava Research Centre, Private Bag 12041, Windhoek, Namibia
  • 2. H.G.W.J. Schweickerdt Herbarium, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 0002 South Africa & South African National Biodiversity Institute, Private Bag X101, Pretoria, 0001 South Africa

Description

FIGURE 5. Petalidium sebrabergense. Morphology of flowers. A. Shoot with relatively narrow leaves and flowers. B, C, D, E. Flowers in front view, each from a different plant to show variation. Corolla lobes are lilac or mauve (pale violet), both surfaces concolorous. F, G. Flower in side view; bracteoles abaxially with numerous simple multi-cellular stalked glandular trichomes up to 2 mm long (not or barely visible to the naked eye), but lacking dendritic trichomes. Photographs by W. Swanepoel.

Notes

Published as part of Swanepoel, Wessel & Van Wyk, Abraham E., 2025, Petalidium sebrabergense (Acanthaceae), a new species from Namibia, pp. 17-30 in Phytotaxa 728 (1) on page 23, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.728.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/18416767

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