7477.000 Diclis Benth.

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

Description of the genus

Annual herbs (in ours), creeping, prostrate or decumbent. Leaves opposite or the upper alternate. Flowers solitary, axillary, pedicellate. Bracts 0. Calyx 5-lobed. Corolla 2-lipped; tube short, produced at front into a spur; posterior lip 2-lobed, anterior lip 3-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous; anther-thecae confluent. Capsule subspherical, loculicidal.

Worldwide: c. 9 species from tropical E and southern Africa and Madagascar

Zambia: 2 taxa.

Diclis ovata

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SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
ovata Benth.B,N,W,C,SDescription, Image
petiolaris Benth.SDescription

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Wikipedia: Diclis

Copyright: Mike Bingham, Annette Willemen, Nicholas Wightman, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Mark Hyde, 2011-26

Bingham, M.G., Willemen, A., Wightman, N., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. and Hyde, M.A. (2026). Flora of Zambia: Genus page: Diclis.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1261, retrieved 4 July 2026

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