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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
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2021. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2021. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0