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Cycnium Jamesii
''Cycnium'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Orobanchaceae. Its native range is tropical and southern Africa and Madagascar. Plants in this genus are annual or perennial hemiparasitic herbs or small shrubs that turn black when they die. Leaves usually occur opposite or near-opposite, but occasionally alternate or in whorls of three. Leaves may pinnatisect or bipinnatisect, with incised or entire margins, and may be Sessility (botany), sessile or shortly Petiole (botany), petiolate. Flowers may be terminally spicate or racemose, solitary-axillary (botany), axillary, or supra-axillary. Flowers are edicellate to sessile or subsessile. Bracts are leaf-like. In species in which they are present, bracteoles are inserted on the pedicel (botany), pedicel or are adnation, adnate to the base of the calyx (botany), calyx tube. The tube-ridged calyx has 4-5 lobes which are equal or subequal. The corolla (botany), corolla is 5-lobed and salver-form. The tube is curved, bent, or str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cycnium Tubulosum
''Cycnium tubulosum'', also known as the vlei ink-flower and the tissue paper flower, is a slender hemiparasitic perennial plant of the broomrape family. Its range includes much of southern and eastern Africa, from South Africa to Ethiopia, including Madagascar. It has creeping, straggling or upright stems, with few narrow, entire leaves and erect, white or pinkish, slightly zygomorph flowers on a long tube, with five lobes, reminiscent of a ''Phlox''-flower. It may not always be fully dependent on the supply of minerals by other plants, but usually makes connections with the roots of grasses. It can be found in moist, short grasslands, reaching altitudes of about . Its conservation status in South-Africa is "least concern". Description The vlei ink-flower is a hairless or nearly hairless, hemiparasitic, high perennial herbaceous plant, with angular stems having four flat sides, which are creeping, straggling or upright, that may have side branches or not, and sometimes there ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |