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Description: | Erect annual herb, 20–70 cm. tall; stems usually simple, quadrangular, mostly hairless, occasionally shortly pubescent just below the leaves, or scabrid on the angles. Leaves sparse, alternate or opposite, subulate or linear, 5–14 mm long; margin entire, broader elliptic basal leaves sometimes present. Inflorescence a terminal spikes 10–27 mm long, densely compacted, quadrangular. Bracts broadly ovate to elliptic-rhombic, 3.5–5 mm long, hairless or minutely granular-glandular. Calyx 4–5 mm. long, 4-lobed, hairless; lobes subulate-lanceolate, 3–4 mm long, hairless except for a few small hairs on margins. Corolla blue to mauve or purple or white; tube up to 8 mm long, hairless or glandular, hairy in the throat; lobes 1.5–2.5 mm wide, upper lobes elliptic-obovate, lower lobes oblong. Capsule broadly ellipsoid, 2.5 mm long, hairless. | |
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Worldwide distribution: | DRC, Burundi, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia | |
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Literature: |
Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 264. Philcox, D. (1990). Scrophulariaceae Flora Zambesiaca 8(2) Page 103. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 96. |
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