7541.000 Dopatrium Buch.-Ham.

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

Description of the genus

Annual herbs, erect, mostly glabrous. Leaves opposite, mostly small, closely arranged at base of stem; cauline leaves much reduced in size, few. Flowers solitary in axils of upper leaves. Calyx 5-lobed; corolla bilabiate, tube often dilated at throat, upper lip bilobed, lower trilobed, all lobes spreading. Fruit a capsule ovoid or globose, small, loculicidally dehiscent. Seeds small, numerous.

Worldwide: 20 species in tropical Africa, Asia and Australia.

Zambia: 2 taxa.

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SpeciesFZ divisionsProvincesContent
junceum (Roxb.) Buch.-Ham. ex Benth.W,C,S
stachytarphetioides Engl. & Gilg N,W,E

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Copyright: Mike Bingham, Annette Willemen, Nicholas Wightman, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Mark Hyde, 2011-24

Bingham, M.G., Willemen, A., Wightman, N., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. and Hyde, M.A. (2024). Flora of Zambia: Genus page: Dopatrium.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1276, retrieved 14 December 2024

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