8668.000 Wahlenbergia
LIGHTFOOTIA L'Hér.
Clarke, H. & Charters, M. (ed. Moll, E.) (2016) The Illustrated Dictionary of Southern African Plant Names Jacana Media, South Africa
Description of the genus
Annual or perennial herbs or small shrubs. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite. Calyx lobes (3-)5. Flowers actinomorphic. Corolla ± deeply (3-)5-lobed. Stamens (3-)5. Ovary subinferior to rarely subsuperior, 2-5-locular. Style shorter or longer than the corolla, the upper part with pollen-collecting hairs, glabrous or hairy below, eglandular or with small glands present at or near the base of the 2-5 style lobes. Capsule loculicidal, dehiscing by as many apical valves as there are loculi in the ovary. Seeds numerous. Derivation of name: after Georg Göran Wahlenberg (1780–1851), Swedish naturalist, geographer, doctor and professor of botany at the University of Uppsala. (Clarke, Charters & Moll-Ed.: 358, 2016). Worldwide: 200 species, more or less cosmopolitan, but especially southern temperate zones Zambia: 20 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| abyssinica (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) Thulin | B,W,E | Description, Image |
| banksiana A. DC. | B,C | Description, Image |
| campanuloides (Delile) Vatke | B | |
| capitata (Baker) Thulin | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| cephalodina Thulin [DD] | B | |
| collomioides (A. DC.) Thulin | N,W,S | |
| denticulata (Burch.) A. DC. | N,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| erecta (Roth ex Roem. & Schult.) Tuyn | W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| hirsuta (Edgew.) Tuyn | N,W,C,S | Description |
| napiformis (A. DC.) Thulin | B,N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| paludicola Thulin | N,W,C,S | Description |
| pulchella Thulin subsp. mbalensis Thulin | N | |
| pulchella Thulin subsp. paradoxa Thulin | N | |
| ramosissima (Hemsl.) Thulin subsp. centiflora Thulin | N,W | |
| ramosissima (Hemsl.) Thulin subsp. oldenlandioides Thulin | W | |
| ramosissima (Hemsl.) Thulin subsp. richardsiae Thulin [VU] | N | |
| ramosissima (Hemsl.) Thulin subsp. zambiensis Thulin | N,W,S | |
| undulata (L.f.) A. DC. | B,S | Description, Image |
| upembensis Thulin | N | |
| virgata Engl. | N,E | Description, Image |
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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): WahlenbergiaBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Wahlenbergia
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