Sopubia eminii Engl.

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Lake Kaulime, Nyika National Park.

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Synonyms:	Sopubia trifida sensu Skan non Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don
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Description:	More or less erect annual herb, 30–60 cm. tall; stems simple to much branched especially near base, scabrid and usually with minute bristly hairs. Leaves (sub)opposite, sometimes 3-whorled, usually trifid particularly below with narrowly linear lobes, becoming entire above, up to 4 cm long, becoming bract-like within the inflorescence. Inflorescence loose, terminal, racemose; flowers opposite, yellow or white with dark purple centre. Pedicels 5–9 mm long, slender, scabrid. Calyx 3.5–4.5 mm long, minutely scabrid outside, almost hairless inside; lobes broadly triangular, c. 1.25 mm long, more or less densely orange to black glandular-punctate when dried. Capsule broadly cylindric-ellipsoid, 3.5–5 mm long, hairless but sparsely reddish glandular-punctate when dried.
Type location:	Tanzania and Kenya
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Worldwide distribution:	Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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Literature:	Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 268. Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 78. Ntore, S. & al. (2024). Checklist of the vascular plants of Burundi Page 182. Philcox, D. (1990). Scrophulariaceae Flora Zambesiaca 8(2) Page 146. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 98.

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