7213.000 Tinnea
Description of the genus
Perennial herbs, suffrutices or shrubs. Young branches, undersides of leaves and corollas with sessile glands. Leaves often held in a V and reflexed; margin entire. Calyx 2-lipped with 2 entire, broadly rounded lips, enlarging in fruit. Corolla with a 3-lobed lower lip and 2-lobed upper lip, dark reddish-brown to blackish-purple. Stamens 4, normally exserted. Style 2-lobed. Nutlets with a well-developed wing on the dorsal side. Worldwide: 19 species in tropical Africa Zambia: 9 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| aethiopica Kotschy ex Hook. f. subsp. stolzii (Robyns & Lebrun) Vollesen [LR-lc] | N | |
| antiscorbutica Welw. [LR-nt] | W | Image |
| apiculata Robyns & Lebrun [LR-lc] | N,W | Description, Image |
| coerulea Gürke var. coerulea [LR-lc] | N | |
| coerulea Gürke var. linearifolia (Bamps) Vollesen | B,W | |
| gracilis Gürke [LR-lc] | N,W,C | |
| rhodesiana S. Moore [LR-lc] | C,S | Description, Image |
| vestita Baker [LR-lc] | B,W,C,S | |
| zambesiaca Baker [LR-lc] | N,E,S | Description, Image |
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Flora of Zimbabwe: Tinnea
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