- Family: Plantaginaceae Juss.
- Genus: Stemodia L.
Stemodia serrata (Hochst.) Benth.
- Genus: Stemodia L.
This species is accepted, and its native range is W. Tropical Africa to NW. Ethiopia and Zambia, Madagascar, India.
[FWTA]
Scrophulariaceae, F. N. Hepper. Flora of West Tropical Africa 2. 1963
- Habit
- An erect, much branched viscid glandular-pubescent aromatic herb, 6-12 in. high
- Flowers
- Flowers yellow or white.
[FZ]
Scrophulariaceae, D. Philcox. Flora Zambesiaca 8:2. 1990
- Habit
- Erect, much-branched herb, 15–35 cm. tall, strongly viscid, foetid, glandular-pubescent throughout to varying degrees.
- Leaves
- Leaves 15–50 x 6–20 mm., oblong to lanceolate, acute or obtuse, narrowed at base or broader, semi-amplexicaul, coarsely serrate.
- Inflorescences
- Inflorescence with flowers crowded into leafy spike-like raceme; pedicels about 1 mm. long; bracts 2, to about 3.25 x 0.2 mm., somewhat ciliate, narrowly linear.
- Calyx
- Calyx 4.5–6.5 mm. long, lobes 3.5–5.5 x 0.5–1.2 mm., narrowly linear-lanceolate, acuminate.
- Corolla
- Corolla about 5.5–6.5 mm. long, upper lip emarginate, lower lip trilobed, lobes rounded to somewhat emarginate, yellowish- or greenish-white.
- Filaments
- Filaments 2.0–2.8 mm. long, slender.
- Ovary
- Ovary 1.5 mm. long, 0.75 mm. in diam., narrowly conical.
- Style
- Style 1.5 mm. long, somewhat arcuate at apex.
- Fruits
- Capsule about 5.5 mm. long, narrowly oblong in outline, 4-furrowed.
[FTEA]
Scrophulariaceae, S.A. Ghazanfar, F.N. Hepper & D. Philcox. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2008
- Conservation
- Least Concern (LC)
- Note
- This and other species of Stemodia are often mistaken for members of the Labiatae with which they have a superficial resemblance; the bilocular ovary is distinctive. In East Africa only S. serrata Benth. has been reported, yet S. verticillata (Mill.) Boldingh (syn. S. parviflora Ait.), an American species with blue flowers and globose capsules occurs as a creeping weed in West Africa, Mauritius and Java, and it may well be found in our region.
- Type
- Types: Senegal [Senegambia], 1828, Leprieur, s.n.; Perrottet, 447, 448 & 575 (G, syn.)
- Habit
- Erect simple or usually much-branched herb, 12–32(–37) cm high.
- Branches
- branches ± erect, 4-angled, glandular-pubescent, viscid with a foetid scent
- Leaves
- Leaves narrowly elliptic or lanceolate, 0.5–5 cm long, 3–15 mm wide, narrowed to base or amplexicaul, acute at apex, margins serrate from the middle to the apex, finely glandular-pubescent
- Flowers
- Flowers solitary in axils forming a leafy spike-like raceme; pedicels 1–3 mm long; bracteoles 2 at the base of the calyx, narrowly linear, ± 3 mm long, ciliate
- Calyx
- Calyx ± 5 mm long in fruit, shorter in flower, lobes subulate-linear, acuminate, finely glandular-pubescent
- Corolla
- Corolla white, ± 6 mm long, upper lip emarginate, lower lip broadly and shortly 3-lobed
- Fruits
- Capsule 5–6 mm, narrow, acuminate, almost as long as the calyx, glabrous
- Figures
- Fig 14, p 37
- Ecology
- Moist, grassy places, flood plains, drying out during dry season; 50–1100 m
- Distribution
- Flora districts: K7 T5 T6 T8 Range: Senegal, Mali, Ghana, Chad, Cameroon, Sudan, Ethiopia, Zambia, Malawi, Madagascar, India, widely distributed but probably overlooked in our area
>
Native to:
Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia
Stemodia serrata (Hochst.) Benth. appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status |
---|---|---|---|---|
Stocks, J.E. [s.n.], India | K000979385 | |||
K000379589 | ||||
Kotschy [521], Ethiopia | K000379584 | |||
Kotschy [421], Ethiopia | K000379585 | |||
Kotschy [226] | K000379588 | |||
Kotschy [199] | K000379587 | |||
Guillemin [3], Senegal | K000379591 | |||
[Law] [s.n.] | K000379586 |
First published in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 10: 381 (1846)
Accepted by
- Onana, J.M. (2011). The vascular plants of Cameroon a taxonomic checklist with IUCN assessments: 1-195. National herbarium of Cameroon, Yaoundé.
- Ghazanfar, S.A., Hepper, F.N. & Philcox, D. (2008). Flora of Tropical East Africa, Scrophulariaceae: 1-211.
- Hedberg, I., Kelbessa, E., Edwards, S., Demissew, S. & Persson, E. (eds.) (2006). Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea 5: 1-690. The National Herbarium, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia & The Department of Systematic Botany, Upps.
- Fischer, E. (1999). Flore d'Afrique Centrale (Zaire-rwanda-Burundi), Scrophulariaceae: 1-217. Jardin Botanique National de Belgique.
- Barry, J. P. & Celles, J.S. (1991). Flore de Mauritanie 1: 1-359. Centre Regional de Documentation Pedagogique, Nice.
- Lebrun, J.p., Toutain, B., Gaston, A. & Boudet, G. (1991). Catalogue des Plantes Vasculaires du Burkina Faso: 1-341. Institut d' Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux, Maisons Alfort.
- Philcox, D. (1990). Flora Zambesiaca 8(2): 1-179. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Lebrun, J.-P., Audru, J., Gaston, A. & Mosnier, M. (1972). Catalogue des Plantes Vasculaires du Tchad Méridional: 1-289. Institut d' Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux, Maisons Alfort.
- Hepper, F.N. (ed.) (1963). Flora of West Tropical Africa, ed. 2, 2: 1-544.
Literature
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- Berhaut Fl. Sén. 74.
- F.T.A. 4, 2: 314
- in DC. Prod. 10: 381 (1846)
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Darbyshire, I., Kordofani, M., Farag, I., Candiga, R. & Pickering, H. (eds.) (2015). The Plants of Sudan and South Sudan: 1-400. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Onana, J.M. (2011). The vascular plants of Cameroon a taxonomic checklist with IUCN assessments: 1-195. National herbarium of Cameroon, Yaoundé.
- Ghazanfar, S.A., Hepper, F.N. & Philcox, D. (2008). Flora of Tropical East Africa, Scrophulariaceae: 1-211.
- Fischer, E. (1999). Flore d'Afrique Centrale (Zaire-rwanda-Burundi), Scrophulariaceae: 1-217. Jardin Botanique National de Belgique.
- Barry, J. P. & Celles, J.S. (1991). Flore de Mauritanie 1: 1-359. Centre Regional de Documentation Pedagogique, Nice.
- Lebrun, J.p., Toutain, B., Gaston, A. & Boudet, G. (1991). Catalogue des Plantes Vasculaires du Burkina Faso: 1-341. Institut d' Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux, Maisons Alfort.
- Lebrun, J.-P., Audru, J., Gaston, A. & Mosnier, M. (1972). Catalogue des Plantes Vasculaires du Tchad Méridional: 1-289. Institut d' Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux, Maisons Alfort.
- Hepper, F.N. (ed.) (1963). Flora of West Tropical Africa, ed. 2, 2: 1-544.
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Fl. Ethiop. & Eritr. 5: 260 (2006).
- Fischer, F.A.C. Scrophulariaceae: 66, pl. 24 (1999)
- F.W.T.A. ed. 2, 2: 357 (1963)
- F.T.A. 4(2): 314 (1906)
- DC., Prodr. 10: 381 (1846)
Flora Zambesiaca
Flora Zambesiaca
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Flora of West Tropical Africa
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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