Lindernia intrepida (Dinter ex Heil) Oberm.

Native to:

Namibia

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6. Scientific Data 8: 215.

Kew Species Profiles

• Craven, P. (2004). Chamaegigas intrepidus. In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.1. < www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 23 June 2010.
• Durka, W., Woitke, M., Hartung, S. & Heilmeier, H. (2004). Genetic diversity in Chamaegigas intrepidus (Scrophulariaceae). In: Breckle, S.W., Schweizer, G., Fangmeier, A. (eds.) Results of worldwide ecological studies. Proceedings 2nd Symposium Schimper Foundation. Verlag Günter Heimbach, Stuttgart.
• Gaff, D.F. & Giess, W. (1986). Drought resistance in water plants in rock pools of Southern Africa. Dinteria 19:17-36.
• Hartung, W. & Ratcliffe, R.G. (2002). The utilization of gylcine and serine as nitrogen sources in roots of Zea mays and Chamaegigas intrepidus. Journal of Experimental Botany 53:2305 – 2314.
• Heilmeier, H. & Hartung, W. (2001). Survival strategies under extreme and complex environmental conditions: the aquatic resurrection plant Chamaegigas intrepidus. Flora 196(4): 245-260.
• Heilmeier, H., Durka, W., Woitke, M. & Hartung, W. (2005). Ephemeral pools as stressful and isolated habitats for the endemic aquatic resurrection plant Chamaegigas intrepidus. Phytocoenologia 35:449-468.
• Heilmeier, H., Ratcliffe, R.G. & Hartung, W. (2000). Urea – a nitrogen source of the aquatic resurrection plant Chamaegigas intrepidus Dinter. Oecologia 123:9-14.
• Heilmeier, H., Wolf, R., Wacker, R., Woitke, M., & Hartung, W. (2002). Observations on the anatomy of hydrated and dehydrated roots of Chamaegigas intrepidus Dinter. Dinteria 27:1-12.
• Porembski, S. & Barthlott, W. (2000). Granitic and gneissic outcrops (inselbergs) as centers of diversity for desiccation-tolerant vascular plants. Plant Ecology 51: 19-28.
• Schiller, P., Hartung, W. & Ratcliffe, R.G. (1998). Intracelluar pH stability in the aquatic resurrection plant Chamaegigas intrepidus under the extreme environmental conditions that characterise its natural habitat. The New Phytologist 140:1-7.
• Schiller, P., Heilmeier, H. & Hartung, W. (1997). Abscisic acid (ABA) relations of the aquatic resurrection plant Chamaegigas intrepidus under naturally fluctuating environmental conditions. The New Phytologist 136:603 – 611.
• Schiller, P., Heilmeier, H. & Hartung, W. (1998). Uptake of amino acids by the aquatic resurrection plant Chamaegigas intrepidus and its implication for N-nutrition. Oecologia 117:63-69.
• Schiller, P., Wolf, R. & Hartung, W. (1999). A scanning electronmicroscopical study of hydrated and desiccated submerged leaves of the aquatic resurrection plant Chamaegigas intrepidus Dinter. Flora 194:97-102.
• Woitke, M., Hartung, W., Gimmler, H. & Heilmeier, H. (2004). Chlorophyll fluorescence of the submerged and floating leaves of the aquatic resurrection plant Chamaegigas intrepidus. Functional Plant Biology 31:53-62.
• Woitke, M., Wolf, R., Hartung, W. & Heilmeier, H. (2006). Flower morphology of the resurrection plant Chamaegigas intrepidus Dinter and some of its potential pollinators.  Flora 201: 281-286.

Kew Backbone Distributions

• Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14: 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.