Family:
Orobanchaceae Vent.

Bartsia L.

This genus is accepted, and its native range is Europe, Medit to Iran, E. Central & E. African Mountains, Greenland, NE. Canada.

[FTEA]

Scrophulariaceae, S.A. Ghazanfar, F.N. Hepper & D. Philcox. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2008

Morphology General Habit
Annual or perennial herbs, densely pubescent, often glandular
Morphology Leaves
Leaves opposite, sessile, with revolute, crenate, rarely entire margins
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers solitary, axillary, shortly pedicellate
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx campanulate, unequally 4-lobed, the median clefts usually deeper than lateral ones
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Corolla yellow (in Flora area), white, red or violet-brown, 2-lipped, tubular, the tube longer than the calyx, galeate
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
Stamens 4, inserted at the top of the corolla tube, included; anthers bithecal, transverse, bearded
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium
Ovary oblong to subglobose; style entire, dilated at apex
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Capsule oblong
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds numerous, testa reticulate, with longitudinal wings, the wings striate.

Native to:

Austria, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greenland, Iceland, Italy, Labrador, Newfoundland, North European Russi, Northwest Territorie, Norway, Nunavut, Ontario, Poland, Québec, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, West Siberia, Yugoslavia

Bartsia L. appears in other Kew resources:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Rico, L. [1278b], Bolivia K000295127 No

First published in Sp. Pl.: 602 (1753)

Accepted by

  • Govaerts, R. (1996). World Checklist of Seed Plants 2(1, 2): 1-492. MIM, Deurne.

Literature

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • R. E. Fries in Acta Horti Berg. 8: 63 (1924). Nom. cons.
  • —F.T.A. 4, 2: 458

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • Sp. Pl. 2: 2: 602 (1753), nom. conserv.

  • Colombian resources for Plants made Accessible

    ColPlantA 2021. Published on the Internet at http://colplanta.org
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    Flora of Tropical East Africa
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. 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 2022. 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