6503.000 Chironia L.

Description of the genus

Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves cauline and in a basal rosette (often not persisting). Flowers 5-merous in a lax few-many flowered cyme. Calyx 5-lobed, without basal glands; lobes sometimes winged. Corolla tube 5-lobed. Ovary 1-locular. Stigma ± capitate or 2-lobed. Capsule septicidally 2-valved.

Worldwide: c. 15 species in subsaharan Africa and Madagascar

Zimbabwe: 4 taxa.

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Species	FZ divisions	Content
gratissima S. Moore	E	Description, Image
krebsii Griseb.	E	Description, Image
palustris Burch. subsp. transvaalensis (Gilg) I. Verd.	N,W,C,E,S	Description, Image
purpurascens (E. Mey.) Benth. & Hook. f. subsp. humilis (Gilg) I. Verd.	W,C,E,S	Description, Image

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Flora of Botswana: Chironia
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Flora of Malawi: Chironia
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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Chironia
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Chironia
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