7534.000 Stemodia L.

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

Description of the genus

Annual, glandular-pubescent, often aromatic herbs, much-branched, or subshrubs. Leaves opposite or verticillate, occasionally alternate below, simple, subentire to variously toothed. Flowers zygomorphic in lax terminal racemes or solitary-axillary, pedicellate. Calyx 5-lobed; lobes narrow, equal or subequal; corolla tubular, tube cylindric, upper lip broad, emarginate to entire, lower lip trilobed. Fruit a capsule globose, ovoid, usually loculicidally dehiscent. Seeds numerous, small, striate.

Worldwide: 30 species, pan-tropical.

Zambia: 1 taxon.

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Other sources of information about Stemodia:

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Flora of Burundi: Stemodia
Flora of Mozambique: Stemodia
Flora of Zimbabwe: Stemodia

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Stemodia
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Stemodia
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Stemodia
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Stemodia
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iNaturalist: Stemodia
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Stemodia
JSTOR Plant Science: Stemodia
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Stemodia
Plants of the World Online: Stemodia
Tropicos: Stemodia
Wikipedia: Stemodia

Copyright: Mike Bingham, Annette Willemen, Nicholas Wightman, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Mark Hyde, 2011-25

Bingham, M.G., Willemen, A., Wightman, N., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. and Hyde, M.A. (2025). Flora of Zambia: Genus page: Stemodia.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1274, retrieved 5 December 2025

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