Description
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Spiny shrub or small tree with
a trunk often swollen below. Leaves entire, oblong to obovate,
either petiolate and alternate on long shoots or fasciculate in
the axils of spines, densely covered in stellately-branched
mucilage glands. Inflorescence a few flowered raceme. Corolla
5-lobed, with a long tube and (in ours) a short spur. Stamens 4.
Fruit a flattened woody capsule. Seeds numerous, flattened with
broad membranous wings.
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Sesamothamnus Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1314
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- Bart Wursten
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- Petra Ballings
Sesamothamnus: Brief Summary
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Sesamothamnus is a genus of plant in family Pedaliaceae.
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