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Clarke, H. & Charters, M. (ed. Moll, E.) (2016) The Illustrated Dictionary of Southern African Plant Names Jacana Media, South Africa
Annual or perennial herbs (in ours). Stems not twining. Leaves alternate. Bracteoles minute, ± linear, rarely 0. Flowers usually resupinate, zygomorphic. Corolla usually 2-lipped with upper lip 2-lobed, lower 3-lobed (rarely all petals form a single lip). (The terms 'upper' and 'lower' assume flowers are resupinate). Anthers (5) united into a tube; the two lower or all of them penicillate at tip, the two lower ones somewhat shorter than others. Ovary inferior to ± superior, 2-locular. Stigma lobes 2, surrounded by a ring of hairs. Fruit a capsule dehiscing by 2, rarely 4, apical valves; or, rarely indehiscent. Derivation of name: after Mathias de L'Obel (Lobelius) (1538-1616), Flemish botanist, traveller and plant collector. (Clarke, Charters & Moll-Ed., 202, 2016). Worldwide: c. 300 species in tropical and warm areas, a few temperate. Burundi: 13 taxa. |
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Species | Content | |
baumannii Engl. | Description, Image | |
chireensis A. Rich. | ||
dissecta M.B.Moss | ||
fervens Thunb.[Agg] | ||
giberroa Hemsl. | Description, Image | |
hartlaubii Buchenau | ||
holstii Engl. | ||
inconspicua A. Rich. | Description, Image | |
lasiocalycina E. Wimm. | ||
mildbraedii Engl. | Description, Image | |
minutula Engl. | Image | |
molleri Henriq. | ||
rubescens De Wild. |
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