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. Mozambique: 15 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| anceps L.f. | M | |
| baumannii Engl. | Z | Description, Image |
| blantyrensis E. Wimm.[NrEnd] | Z | |
| caerulea Sims var. macularis (C. Presl) E. Wimm. | GI | Image |
| cobaltica S. Moore[NrEnd][VU] | MS | Description, Image |
| erinus L. | N,T,MS,GI,M | Description, Image |
| fervens Thunb. subsp. fervens | N,Z,T,MS,M | Description, Image |
| fervens Thunb. subsp. recurvata (E. Wimm.) Thulin | Z | |
| flaccida (C. Presl) A. DC. subsp. mossiana (R.D. Good) Thulin | MS,M | |
| goetzei Diels | Z,MS | Description, Image |
| pteropoda (C. Presl) A.DC. | MS | |
| sonderiana (Kuntze) Lammers | GI | Description, Image |
| stricklandiae Gilliland | MS | Image |
| trullifolia Hemsl. subsp. trullifolia | Z,MS | Description, Image |
| welwitschii Engl. & Diels | N |
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