8694.000 Lobelia L.

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.

Lobelia cobaltica

Links to taxa:     View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus

SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
anceps L.f.M
baumannii Engl.ZDescription, Image
blantyrensis E. Wimm.[NrEnd]Z
caerulea Sims var. macularis (C. Presl) E. Wimm.GIImage
cobaltica S. Moore[NrEnd][VU]MSDescription, Image
erinus L.N,T,MS,GI,MDescription, Image
fervens Thunb. subsp. fervens N,Z,T,MS,MDescription, Image
fervens Thunb. subsp. recurvata (E. Wimm.) ThulinZ
flaccida (C. Presl) A. DC. subsp. mossiana (R.D. Good) ThulinMS,M
goetzei DielsZ,MSDescription, Image
pteropoda (C. Presl) A.DC.MS
sonderiana (Kuntze) LammersGIDescription, Image
stricklandiae GillilandMS
trullifolia Hemsl. subsp. trullifolia Z,MSDescription, Image
welwitschii Engl. & DielsN

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Flora of Zimbabwe: Lobelia
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Lobelia

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Lobelia
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Lobelia
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iNaturalist: Lobelia
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Lobelia
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Lobelia
Plants of the World Online: Lobelia
Tropicos: Lobelia
Wikipedia: Lobelia

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave 2007-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Mozambique: Genus page: Lobelia.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1458, retrieved 19 March 2024

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