- Family: Plantaginaceae Juss.
Schweinfurthia A.Braun
This genus is accepted, and is native to Asia-Tropical, Africa and Asia-Temperate..
[FSOM]
M. Thulin et al. Flora of Somalia, Vol. 1-4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS
- Habit
- Herbs or subshrubs
- Leaves
- Leaves opposite below, alternate above
- Inflorescences
- Flowers in lax racemes or solitary in leaf-axils
- Calyx
- Calyx deeply divided into 5 unequal lobes
- Corolla
- Corolla with tube gibbous at base but not spurred; limb 2-lipped, the lower lip with a prominent palate closing the mouth of the tube
- Stamens
- Stamens 4, included, the adjacent pairs of anthers marginally coherent
- Style
- Style filiform; stigma capitate
- Fruits
- Fruit a capsule with very unequal cells, the upper cell small, few-seeded, indehiscent, the lower cell large, many-seeded, dehiscing by a solitary pore and later splitting into several valves
- Seeds
- Seeds ± radially symmetrical, with 4–6 longitudinal wing-like ridges.
- Distribution
- Six species in south-western Asia and north-eastern and eastern tropical Africa.
Native to:
Afghanistan, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, India, Iran, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Socotra, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Yemen
Schweinfurthia A.Braun appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin 20: 24 (1866)
Literature
Flora of Somalia
- Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
- Sutton, A revision of the tribe Antirrhineae : 135–142 (1988).
- Miller, Short & Sutton in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinb. 40: 23–40 (1982)
Flora of Somalia
Flora of Somalia
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Kew Backbone Distributions
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
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