7541.000 Dopatrium Buch.-Ham.

Fischer, E. (1999) Scrophulariaceae Flore d'Afrique Centrale (Congo-Kinshasa, Rwanda & Burundi) Jardin Botanique National de Belgique, Bruxelles

Lehmann, G. (1988) Plantaginaceae Flora Zambesiaca 9(1)

Description of the genus

Annual herbs, erect, mostly glabrous. Leaves opposite, mostly small, closely arranged at base of stem; cauline leaves much reduced in size, few. Flowers solitary in axils of upper leaves. Calyx 5-lobed; corolla bilabiate, tube often dilated at throat, upper lip bilobed, lower trilobed, all lobes spreading. Fruit a capsule ovoid or globose, small, loculicidally dehiscent. Seeds small, numerous.

Worldwide: 20 species in tropical Africa, Asia and Australia.

DRC: 4 taxa.

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SpeciesBotanical divisionsContent
baoulense A.Chev.XI
junceum (Roxb.) Buch.-Ham. ex Benth.VII,XIDescription
macranthum Oliv.VII,XIDescription
stachytarphetioides Engl. & Gilg V,XI

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