Malvaceae
Hermannia

Hermannia torrei Wild

First published in Bol. Soc. Brot., sér. 2, 33: 38 (1959)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is S. Mozambique. It is a perennial or subshrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

Sterculiaceae, H. Wild. Flora Zambesiaca 1:2. 1961

Morphology General Habit
Perennial herb or shrublet up to 50 cm. tall; branchlets at first stellate-tomentose with some glandular hairs, soon becoming pubescent, and purplish-brown.
Morphology Leaves
Leaf-lamina 0·7–1·5 × 0·4–1 cm., obovate to broadly obovate, apex truncate or rounded, margin coarsely serrate but entire towards the base, base broadly cuneate, shortly greyish-stellate-tomentose on both surfaces and with a few glands, nerves in 2–A pairs somewhat impressed above and prominent beneath; petiole up to 8 mm. long, stellate-tomentose and glandular; stipules c. 2 mm. long, tomentose, ovate, acute.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers solitary in the upper axils, nodding; peduncle c. 1·2 cm. long, slender, stellate-tomentose, with 2 minute bracts near the apex.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 6–7 × 6–7 mm., campanulate, densely stellate-pubescent and glandular; lobes c. 4·5 mm. long, narrowly triangular-acuminate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Petals c. 1 × 0·4 cm., red or purplish, narrowly obovate, margin inrolled in the lower 1/3, pubescent in the lower 1/3.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
Stamens with narrowly oblanceolate filaments c. 3·5 mm. long, pubescent on the shoulders; anthers c. 5 mm. long, pubescent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil
Ovary shortly stipitate, oblong-ovoid, minutely horned at the apex, stellate-tomentose and glandular; style c. 4 mm. long, puberulous in the lower 1/2.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Capsule c. 8 × 6 mm., oblong-ovoid, with 5 spreading apical horns 0·5–1 mm. long, shortly stellate-tomentose and glandular.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds brown, c. 1·5 × 1 mm., subreniform, wrinkled.
[FZ]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0