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LIGHTFOOTIA L'Hér.
Clarke, H. & Charters, M. (ed. Moll, E.) (2016) The Illustrated Dictionary of Southern African Plant Names Jacana Media, South Africa
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 Burundi: 14 taxa. |
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| Species | Content | |
| capillacea (L.f.) A.DC.[Agg] | ||
| capitata (Baker) Thulin | Description, Image | |
| erecta (Roth ex Roem. & Schult.) Tuyn | Description, Image | |
| hirsuta (Edgew.) Tuyn | Description | |
| hookeri (C.B.Clarke) Tuyn | ||
| huttonii (Sond.) Thulin | ||
| krebsii Cham. | ||
| napiformis (A. DC.) Thulin | Description, Image | |
| perrottetii (A. DC.) Thulin | ||
| petraea Thulin | ||
| pulchella Thulin[Agg] | ||
| ramosissima (Hemsl.) Thulin[Agg] | ||
| silenoides Hochst. ex A.Rich. | ||
| virgata Engl. | Description, Image |
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