6481.000 Sebaea
Boutique, R. (1972) Gentianaceae Flore d'Afrique Centrale (Zaire - Rwanda - Burundi) Jardin Botanique National de Belgique
Description of the genus
Annual or perennial herbs. Stems usually ± 4-ridged or winged. Leaves well-developed or scale-like. Flowers 4-5-merous, terminal, solitary or in cymes, usually yellow. Calyx 4-5-lobed, ± free or with a short tube; lobes keeled or winged. Corolla tube with 4-5(-6) lobes; lobes without glandular nectaries within. Ovary ovoid or almost spherical, 2-locular. Stigma capitate or clavate, ± 2-lobed. Capsule septicidally 2-valved. Seeds very many, minute. Worldwide: 50 species, Africa to India, Australia and New Zealand Zimbabwe: 8 taxa. |
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Links to taxa: View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus
| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| bojeri Griseb. | E | Description |
| brachyphylla Griseb. | C,E | Description |
| junodii Schinz | C,E | Description |
| leiostyla Gilg | E,S | Description, Image |
| longicaulis Schinz | C,E,S | Description |
| microphylla (Edgew.) Knobl. | N,W,C,E,S | |
| pentandra E. Mey. var. burchellii (Gilg) Marais | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| sedoides Gilg var. confertiflora (Schinz) Marais | E |
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