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Lehmann, G. (1988) Plantaginaceae Flora Zambesiaca 9(1)
Annual, glandular-pubescent, often aromatic herbs, much-branched, or subshrubs. Leaves opposite or verticillate, occasionally alternate below, simple, subentire to variously toothed. Flowers zygomorphic in lax terminal racemes or solitary-axillary, pedicellate. Calyx 5-lobed; lobes narrow, equal or subequal; corolla tubular, tube cylindric, upper lip broad, emarginate to entire, lower lip trilobed. Fruit a capsule globose, ovoid, usually loculicidally dehiscent. Seeds numerous, small, striate. Worldwide: 30 species, pan-tropical. Zimbabwe: 1 taxon. |
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