Distribution Map

Monopsis decipiens

                   
                   
                                                                                                                   
(Lobelia decipiens)

Campanulaceae Lobelioideae  

As at April 2024, 21 herbarium specimens, 49 photo records

South African Red List status: LC
Global Distribution: Also occurs outside southern Africa
Found within protected areas: Mlawula Malolotja
Medicinal

Description (Compton's Flora of Swaziland*):
Lobelia decipiens - Slender underground rhizome. Aerial shoots erect, slender, usually less than 20 cm high, minutely downy or hairless. Leaves irregularly scattered, stalkless, narrow-oblong, blunt or pointed, c 1 cm long x 1 mm wide, usually toothless or with occasional minute tooth. Flowers usually few borne at top of leafy shoots, stalk slender, erect, up to 3 cm long. Calyx lobes narrowpointed, spreading, c 4 mm long; corolla minutely downy outside, bright blue, or frequently lower lip blue with yellow spot, upper lip purple. Lower lip with three broad lobes, up to 1,5 cm across; upper lip with two short lobes.

* 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.