3201.000 Vahlia Thunb.

Bridson, D.M. (1978) Vahliaceae Flora Zambesiaca 4

Description of the genus

Annual herbs or suffrutices, branched and erect, hairy. Leaves sessile to subsessile, ovate to linear, midrib apparent but lateral veins obscure. Inflorescences erect, sessile to subsessile or pedunculate. Calyx-tube campanulate to subglobose, often distinctly 5-veined; petals shorter than or just exceeding the calyx-lobes, lanceolate to orbicular; margin entire to crenate. Fruit a capsule.

Derivation of name: for Martin Hendrichsen Vahl (1749-1804), Danish-Norwegian botanist and traveller.

Worldwide: 5 species in sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, Middle East and Asia.

Zambia: 3 taxa.

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Species	FZ divisions	Provinces	Content
capensis (L.f.) Thunb. subsp. vulgaris Bridson var. vulgaris	B,C,S		Description, Image
dichotoma (Murray) Kuntze	N,E		Description, Image
digyna (Retz.) Kuntze	N,?C,S		Image

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