- Family: Scrophulariaceae Juss.
- Genus: Selago L.
Selago nachtigalii Rolfe
- Genus: Selago L.
This species is accepted, and its native range is Botswana to Namibia.
[FZ]
Scrophulariaceae, D. Philcox. Flora Zambesiaca 8:2. 1990
- Habit
- Erect or decumbent perennial herbs to 45 cm. tall; stems erect or subprostrate, branching mainly from base, minutely hispid or retrorse crisped-pilose.
- Leaves
- Leaves 10–15(20) mm. long and up to 1 mm. wide, linear or narrowly linear-lanceolate, acute, glabrous; axillary fascicles of leaves present throughout, half to two thirds the length of main leaves.
- Inflorescences
- Spikes up to 30 mm. long, c. 5 mm. in diam.; flowers sessile to subsessile. Inflorescence corymbose of globose or elongate spikes arranged terminally at ends of stem and branches.
- Bracts
- Bracts 2.5–4 x c. 1.25 mm. at base, lanceolate, somewhat boat-shaped, keeled, glabrous, ciliate on scarious margin at base, markedly longer than flowers.
- Calyx
- Calyx c. 0.8–1.25 mm. long, (2)3-lobed; lateral lobes c. 1 mm. long, narrowly elliptic-oblong, minutely ciliate, dorsal lobe smaller, filamentous to absent.
- Corolla
- Corolla white, 1.75–2.25 mm. long; lobes elliptic-oblong, about half as long as tube.
- Fruits
- Capsule 0.8–1.15 x 1.1 mm., somewhat compressed globular, smooth, glabrous, not distinctly muricate.
Native to:
Botswana, Namibia
Selago nachtigalii Rolfe appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status |
---|---|---|---|---|
Owen [s.n.], South Africa | K000425101 | |||
Marloth [1030], South Africa | K000425100 | |||
Rehmann [3603], South Africa | K000425102 | |||
Nachtigal [s.n.], South Africa | K000425103 | Unknown type material |
First published in Verh. Bot. Vereins Prov. Brandenburg 31: 205 (1890)
Accepted by
- Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa an annotated checklist Strelitzia 14: 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
Literature
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Philcox, D. (1990). Flora Zambesiaca 8(2): 1-179. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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