8694.000 Lobelia
Clarke, H. & Charters, M. (ed. Moll, E.) (2016) The Illustrated Dictionary of Southern African Plant Names Jacana Media, South Africa
Description of the genus
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. Zimbabwe: 17 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| adnexa E. Wimm. | N | |
| baumannii Engl. | E | Description, Image |
| chireensis A. Rich. | W | |
| cobaltica S. Moore [NrEnd] [LR-nt] | E | Description, Image |
| erinus L. | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| fervens Thunb. subsp. fervens | E | Description, Image |
| fervens Thunb. subsp. recurvata (E. Wimm.) Thulin | S | |
| flaccida (C. Presl) A. DC. subsp. mossiana (R.D. Good) Thulin | E,S | |
| goetzei Diels | C,E | Description, Image |
| intercedens (E. Wimm.) Thulin | N | |
| kirkii R.E. Fr. | W,S | Description, Image |
| lobata E. Wimm. [End] [VU] | W | |
| molleri Henriq. | E | |
| sonderiana (Kuntze) Lammers | N,W,C | Description, Image |
| stricklandiae Gilliland [VU] | E | Image |
| thermalis Thunb. | W,C,S | |
| welwitschii Engl. & Diels | C,E,S |
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