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Goyder, D.J. & Nicholas, A. (2001) A revision of Gomphocarpus R. Br. Kew Bulletin 56 769-836
Short-lived perennial sub-shrubs or pyrophytic herbs. Rootstock usually a fibrous tap root, never tuberous. Latex white. Leaves generally opposite. Inflorescences consisting of extra-axillary nodding umbels. Corolla lobes spreading or reflexed, commonly with a line of long white hairs along the right margin. Corona with 5 well-developed cucullate lobes. Pollinia flattened. Stigma head flat. Follicles generally 1, inflated (in ours). Seeds with a tuft of hairs. Closely related to Asclepias. Worldwide: 20 species, native to drier parts of Africa and neighbouring parts of Arabia, Sinai, Israel and Jordan Malawi: 4 taxa. |
Species | FZ divisions | Content |
fruticosus (L.) W.T. Aiton subsp. fruticosus | S | Description, Image |
glaucophyllus Schltr. | N,C | Description, Image |
praticolus (S. Moore) Goyder & Nicholas | N | Image |
swynnertonii (S. Moore) Goyder & Nicholas | Description, Image |
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