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LIGHTFOOTIA L'Hér.
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. Worldwide: 200 species, more or less cosmopolitan, but especially southern temperate zones Malawi: 20 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| abyssinica (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) Thulin | N,C,S | Description, Image |
| capillacea (L.f.) A. DC. subsp. tenuior (Engl.) Thulin | C,S | Description, Image |
| capitata (Baker) Thulin | N,C,S | Description, Image |
| collomioides (A. DC.) Thulin | N | |
| denticulata (Burch.) A. DC. | C | Description, Image |
| erecta (Roth ex Roem. & Schult.) Tuyn | N,C,S | Description, Image |
| flexuosa (Hook. f. & Thomson) Thulin | N,C | |
| hirsuta (Edgew.) Tuyn | N,S | Description |
| huttonii (Sond.) Thulin | N | |
| madagascariensis A. DC. | S | Description, Image |
| napiformis (A. DC.) Thulin | N,C,S | Description, Image |
| paludicola Thulin | N | |
| perrottetii (A. DC.) Thulin | N | |
| ramosissima (Hemsl.) Thulin subsp. centiflora Thulin | S | |
| ramosissima (Hemsl.) Thulin subsp. oldenlandioides Thulin | N | |
| ramosissima (Hemsl.) Thulin subsp. ramosissima | N | |
| ramosissima (Hemsl.) Thulin subsp. subcapitata Thulin | N | |
| subaphylla (Baker) Thulin subsp. thesioides Thulin | N | |
| undulata (L.f.) A. DC. | N,S | Description, Image |
| virgata Engl. | N,C,S | Description, Image |
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