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Leistner, O.A. (ed.) (2000) Seed plants of southern Africa: families and genera Strelitzia 10
Small annual herbs, lacking a basal rosette; roots whitish. Stems 4-angled, sometimes winged. Leaves opposite and decussate, usually sessile, the venation usually palmate. Flowers solitary and axillary below, borne in lax, few-flowered terminal racemes above. Bracts in unequal pairs. Calyx 5-lobed, ribbed or winged. Corolla 2-lipped; tube cylindric; upper lip 2-lobed, hooded; lower lip larger, 3-lobed, with hairs having a multicellular base and club-shaped end cell. Stamens 4, fertile. Nectary absent. Ovary 2-locular; ovules many. Fruit an oblong, glabrous, septicidal capsule. Seeds small, numerous, epidermis thin-walled. Worldwide: c. 24 species in tropical and southern Africa. Zambia: 10 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Provinces | Content |
| bifolius (Skan) Eb. Fisch.[LR-lc] | N,W | Nw | |
| goetzei (Engl.) Eb. Fisch. | N,C,E | C | Description, Image |
| gracilis (Pilg.) Eb. Fisch. | N,W | ||
| involucratus (Philcox) Eb. Fisch.[VU] | W | Nw | |
| latibracteatus (Skan) Eb. Fisch. subsp. parviflorus (Philcox) Eb. Fisch. | N | N | |
| rupestris (Engl.) Eb. Fisch. | N,W,C,S | Lk | Description, Image |
| schweinfurthii (Oliv.) Eb. Fisch. | N,W,C | Lp,N,C,Lk,W | |
| spicatus (Engl.) Eb. Fisch. | B,N,W,C,E,S | C,W | Description, Image |
| tenuifolius (Philcox) Eb. Fisch.[VU] | N | N | |
| tenuis (S. Moore) Eb. Fisch. | W,C | C |
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