Water mouse pod plant morphology

Plant morphology

Upright shrubs, up to 2 meters. Stem stout, 9 mm in diameter, terete, branched above, glabrous. Stipules spiny, petiole 3-6 mm long; leaf blade oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 6-14 cm long, 2-5 cm wide, apex acute, base cuneate, margin 4-5 feathery Cleft, subleathery, glabrous on both sides, main veins concave above, main veins prominent on the back, lateral veins 4-5 on each side, protruding from the top of the lobe as sharp hard thorns. [3] Spikes terminal; sepals opposite, broadly ovate, 7-8 mm long, no thorns, caducous; bracteoles ovate, ca. 5 mm, leathery; calyx lobes 4, outside 1 pair broadly ovate, 10-13 mm long, apically apically, margin thin, sometimes wrinkled, ciliate, 1 pair of ovate inside, ca. 10 mm, entire. Corolla white, 3-4 cm long, corolla tube ca. 6 mm, upper lip degenerate, lower lip obovate, ca. 3 cm, thin leathery, apically 3-lobed, outer ones pilose, 1 on each side on upper inner surface 3 - 4 mm wide belt covered; Stamens 4, nearly as long, anthers 1 compartment, longitudinally fissure, 1 row of bristles on each side of the fissure, thick filaments, 1.5 cm long, 2 mm at the widest point, near soft Bone mass; cartilage at the top of ovary, longitudinal styloid in style, 2.2 cm long; stigma 2-lobed. [3] Capsule oval, 2.5-3 cm long, with 4 seeds.

Seeds flat, round kidney, pale yellow


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