8694.000 Lobelia L.

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 (in ours). Stems not twining. Leaves alternate. Bracteoles minute, ± linear, rarely 0. Flowers usually resupinate, zygomorphic. Corolla usually 2-lipped with upper lip 2-lobed, lower 3-lobed (rarely all petals form a single lip). (The terms 'upper' and 'lower' assume flowers are resupinate). Anthers (5) united into a tube; the two lower or all of them penicillate at tip, the two lower ones somewhat shorter than others. Ovary inferior to ± superior, 2-locular. Stigma lobes 2, surrounded by a ring of hairs. Fruit a capsule dehiscing by 2, rarely 4, apical valves; or, rarely indehiscent.

Derivation of name: after Mathias de L'Obel (Lobelius) (1538-1616), Flemish botanist, traveller and plant collector. (Clarke, Charters & Moll-Ed., 202, 2016).

Worldwide: c. 300 species in tropical and warm areas, a few temperate.

Rwanda: 11 taxa.

Lobelia petiolata

Links to taxa:     View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus

SpeciesContent
baumannii Engl.Description, Image
giberroa Hemsl.Description, Image
hartlaubii Buchenau
holstii Engl.
mildbraedii Engl.Description, Image
minutula Engl.Image
molleri Henriq.
petiolata Hauman[NrEnd]Image
rubescens De Wild.
stuhlmannii Schweinf. ex Stuhlmann[NrEnd]
wollastonii Baker f.[NrEnd]

Other sources of information about Lobelia:

Our websites:

Flora of Botswana: Lobelia
Flora of Burundi: Lobelia
Flora of Caprivi: Lobelia
Flora of the DRC: Lobelia
Flora of Malawi: Lobelia
Flora of Mozambique: Lobelia
Flora of Zambia: Lobelia
Flora of Zimbabwe: Lobelia
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Lobelia

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Lobelia
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Lobelia
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Lobelia
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Lobelia
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Lobelia
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Lobelia
JSTOR Plant Science: Lobelia
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Lobelia
Plants of the World Online: Lobelia
Tropicos: Lobelia
Wikipedia: Lobelia



Flora of Rwanda: Genus page: Lobelia.
https://www.rwandaflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1458, retrieved 11 October 2024

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