8471.000 Spermacoce L.

Description of the genus

Annual or perennial herbs or small subshrubs. Stems often 4-angled. Leaves opposite or in false whorls. Stipular sheath present, divided into 1-many fimbriae. Flowers bisexual, usually in axillary many flowered clusters (which may run together to form a spike-like inflorescence); less often in terminal capitula. Flowers frequently intermixed with numerous ± scarious, filiform bracteoles. Calyx lobes 2-4(-8). Corolla funnel-shaped or salver-shaped; lobes (3-)4. Stamens 4, anthers usually exserted. Ovary 2-locular. Fruit usually a 2-valved capsule.

Worldwide: c. 150 - 250 species, mainly America, but also widespread in the tropics and subtropics

Zambia: 24 taxa.

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Species	FZ divisions	Content
annua Verdc. [VU]
arvensis (Hiern) Good	C,E,S
bangweolensis (R.E. Fr.) Verdc. [End][VU]		Description, Image
chaetocephala DC.	C,E,S	Description, Image
congensis (Bremek.) Verdc.	N,W
dibrachiata Oliv.	B,N,W,C,E,S	Description, Image
filifolia (Schumach. & Thonn.) J.-P. Lebrun & Stork	C,S	Description, Image
huillensis (Hiern) Good	W,S
mauritiana Gideon	W
natalensis Hochst.	W	Description, Image
perennis Verdc. var. fimbriolata Verdc. [VU]
perennis Verdc. var. perennis [VU]
phyteumoides Verdc. var. phyteumoides
princeae (K. Schum.) Verdc. var. pubescens (Hepper) Verdc.	N
princeae (K.Schum.) Verdc. var. mwinilungae Verdc. [DD]
princeae (K.Schum.) Verdc. var. princeae	W,C,E	Description, Image
pusilla Wall.	B,N,W,C,E,S	Description, Image
quadrisulcata (Bremek.) Verdc.	B,N,W,C
samfya Verdc. [DD]
senensis (Klotzsch) Hiern	B,N,W,C,E,S	Description, Image
sp. B	W
sphaerostigma (A. Rich.) Vatke	N,W,C,E	Description, Image
subvulgata (K. Schum.) Garcia var. subvulgata	B,N,W,C,E,S	Description, Image
thymoidea (Hiern) Verdc.

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