Distribution Map

Pterodiscus ngamicus

As at April 2024, 2 herbarium specimens

South African Red List status: LC
Global Distribution: Also occurs outside southern Africa
Flora Protection Act: Schedule C

Description (Compton's Flora of Swaziland*):
Pterodiscus aurantiacus - Large fleshy tuber underground from which rise a number of simple or shortly branched shoots up to 30 cm high; surface granular- mealy. Leaves few, opposite or alternate, slightly succulent; stalk c 1 cm long; blade broadest beyond middle, entire or shortly few-toothed, up to 4 cm long x 1,5 cm wide. Flowers solitary, axillary, short-stalked. Calyx c 5 mm long, deeply five-lobed, lobes pointed. Corolla pinkish-brown, tube cylindrical at base, widening above, c 5 cm long, slightly two-lipped with five rounded lobes, spreading, c 5 cm diam. Stamens four, with sometimes a fifth sterile; anthers two-chambered, halves diverging. Ovary two-chambered, ovules few. Fruit circular, c 2 cm diam, halves flattened against one another, each half with two membranous wings, surface net-veined.

* Where species names have changed, these have been matched according to herbarium specimens quoted in this publication.

Notes:
Global distribution information: southern Africa includes southern Mozambique and southern Zimbabwe.
Restricted distribution has been based on an estimated extent of occurence of less than 100 000 km2 and/or an estimated area of occupancy of 100 km2, based on geo-referenced GBIF and iNaturalist data.