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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 DRC: 20 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| abyssinica (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) Thulin | Description, Image | |
| capitata (Baker) Thulin | Description, Image | |
| collomioides (A. DC.) Thulin | ||
| denticulata (Burch.) A. DC. | Description, Image | |
| ericoidella (P.A.Duvign. & Denaeyer) Thulin[End] | ||
| flexuosa (Hook. f. & Thomson) Thulin | ||
| hirsuta (Edgew.) Tuyn | Description | |
| hookeri (C.B.Clarke) Tuyn | ||
| krebsii Cham. | ||
| napiformis (A. DC.) Thulin | Description, Image | |
| paludicola Thulin | Description | |
| perrottetii (A. DC.) Thulin | ||
| persimilis Thulin[End] | ||
| pulchella Thulin[Agg] | ||
| ramosissima (Hemsl.) Thulin subsp. centiflora Thulin | ||
| ramosissima (Hemsl.) Thulin subsp. zambiensis Thulin | ||
| silenoides Hochst. ex A.Rich. | ||
| subaphylla (Baker) Thulin subsp. thesioides Thulin | ||
| upembensis Thulin | ||
| wittei Thulin[End] |
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