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Synonyms: |
Crepidorhopalon insularis (Skan) Eb. Fisch. Lindernia insularis Skan Lindernia rupestris Engl. Lindernia subscaposa Mildbr. |
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Status: | Native |
Description: |
Erect to spreading annual 3-18 cm high, with simple 4-angled stems especially in small specimens, branching when larger. Leaves opposite, sessile, broadly ovate to elliptic-oblong, 8-20 mm long, 3-7-veined from the base, mostly hairless or sparsely glandular-pubescent, often purple-tinged; margin shallowly toothed to almost entire on the lower leaves. Flowers in lax terminal and lateral racemes on pedicels up to 3 mm long. Calyx 4-5 mm long with spreading linear lobes 3-4 mm long, minutely glandular-pubescent. Corolla yellow to orange-yellow, purple-tinged on the upper lip. Capsule globose-ovoid, 3-4 mm long, shorter than the calyx. |
Notes: | One of the few species in Linderniaceae with yellow flowers. |
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Habitat: | On wet soils in open grassland and woodland. |
Altitude range: (metres) | Up to 1700 m |
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Worldwide distribution: | DRC, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe. |
Zimbabwe distribution: | N |
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Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Images last updated: | Wednesday 10 July 2019 |
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 265. Fischer, E. (1992). Systematik der afrikanischen Lindernieae (Scrophulariaceae) Tropische und subtropische Pflanzenwelt 81 Pages 172 - 176. As Crepidorhopalon insularis (Includes a picture). Fischer, E., Schäferhoff, B. & Müller, K. (2013). The phylogeny of Linderniaceae – The new genus Linderniella, and new combinations within Bonnaya, Craterostigma, Lindernia, Micranthemum, Torenia and Vandellia Willdenowia 43 Pages 223 - 224. Ghazanfar, S.A., Hepper, F.N. & Philcox, D. (2008). Scrophulariaceae Flora of Tropical East Africa Pages 72 - 73. As Lindernia rupestris 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 77. As Crepidorhopalon insularis Philcox, D. (1990). Scrophulariaceae Flora Zambesiaca 8(2) Page 63. As Lindernia insularis Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 97. As Crepidorhopalon insularis |
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