Selago compacta
Scrophulariaceae Limoselleae
As at April 2024, 11 herbarium specimens
South African Red List status: LC
Global Distribution: Restricted distribution
Found within protected areas: Malolotja
Description (Compton's Flora of Swaziland*):
Selago junodii - Erect shoots from woody rootstock, shortly rough-hairy throughout. Leaves 1-1,5 cm long X c 1 mm wide, more or less clustered, stalkless, narrow, blunt, with rough recurved edges, occasionally with a single tooth. Flower-heads solitary or few, terminating branches, c 1,5 cm diam, with dense stalkless flowers. Calyx tube 5-6 mm long, cylindrical, slightly enlarged above, with five ridges, lobes pointed, c 1 mm long. Corolla tube c 7 mm long, lobes 1,5-2,5 mm long, blunt, white. Stamens c 2 mm long including anthers. Style protruding.
* Where species names have changed, these have been matched according to herbarium specimens quoted in this publication.
Notes:
Global distribution information: southern Africa includes southern Mozambique and southern Zimbabwe.
Restricted distribution has been based on an estimated extent of occurence of less than 100 000 km2 and/or an estimated area of occupancy of 100 km2, based on geo-referenced GBIF and iNaturalist data.
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