Selago

Selago spuria

Selago is an approximately 190 species comprehensive plant genus of the family figwort family ( Scrophulariaceae ).

Description

Selago species are heather -like, highly branched dwarf shrubs or occasionally perennial or annual herbaceous plants. You can be glabrous or hairy. The stems are ascending to erect. The leaves are stammbürtig, sessile and are alternate singly or in clusters. The leaf blade is linear - lanceolate, oblong, elliptic or spatulate. Forward towards the leaves are pointed to blunt, the leaf margin is entire to toothed.

The flowers are sessile or on short stalks. The calyx is deeply incised, so that three to five nearly equal calyx lobes arise. The crown is white, tubular, her coronary band is divided into two lips. The corolla tube may be short and wide or long and narrow. The four stamens are not beyond the crown. The ovary is nearly spherical, the scar is cleaved or three - toothed.

The fruits contain two spindle-shaped seeds.

Dissemination

The approximately 190 species of the genus selago are particularly common in southern Africa, some species occur in other tropical parts of Africa before, the type selago muralis can be found on Madagascar.

Documents

• E. Fischer: Scrophulariaceae. In: K. Kubitzki, JW Kadereit: The Families and Generas of Vascular Plants: Flowering Plants, Dicotyledons: Lamiales, Volume VII, Springer Verlag, 2004, ISBN 978-3-540-40593-1.