Fischer, E. (1999) Scrophulariaceae Flore d'Afrique Centrale (Congo-Kinshasa, Rwanda & Burundi) Jardin Botanique National de Belgique, Bruxelles
Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves usually opposite but may be in whorls or alternate. Calyx usually with 4 lobes, the fifth when present, small. Flowers usually blue, rarely white or pinkish. Corolla with a very short tube and rotate 4-lobed limb. Stamens 2. Capsule ± laterally flattened. Derivation of name: Named after St Veronica, who wiped the sweat from Christ's face Worldwide: 180 species, mainly northern temperate, a few on tropical mountains and in the Southern Hemisphere; some subcosmopolitan weeds Rwanda: 4 taxa. |
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