Gerardiina angolensis Engl.
NE Indigenous

Morphological description

A rigid herb, bright green, erect or ascending, strict, somewhat shining, perennial; stoloniferous; stem obtusely quadrangular, sulcate, puberulous in the furrows, about 27 in. high, leafy, smooth, reddish; leaves opposite, narrowly elliptical or lanceolate, obtuse or scarcely acute, somewhat narrowed towards the broad more or less connate and decurrent sessile 3-norved base, scabrous above with rough hard whitish points and often along the nerves beneath, comparatively smooth beneath, erect or suberect, rigid, 1/2-3 1/2 in. long, 1/8-1/3 in. broad, entire; flowers numerous, about 3/4-1 in. long; racemes terminal, 4 1/2-6 in. long or more; pedicels in. long, glabrous mostly opposite, bracteate at the base, ebracteolate; bracts opposite, roundly oval, connate at the base, glabrous, in. long; calyx glabrous or minutely puberulous, coriaceous, campanulate-hemispherical, shortly 5-cleft, 1/6-1/4 in. long; teeth deltoid, about 1/12 in. long; corolla tubular, minutely puberulous outside; tube about 1/2-5/8 in. long, 1/5-3/8 in. broad at the middle, 1/6-1/3 in. broad at the throat, 1/8 in. broad at the base; lobes 5, rounded, about 1/4-1.3 in. long, two of them shortly connate; filaments pilose, one pair rather long, the other pair short; anthers 2-celled; cells distinct, gently curved, nearly glabrous, 1/12-1/8 in. long; style about equalling or exceeding the longer pair of filaments, about 1/4-1/3 in. long; stigma not much thickened; capsule ovoid, 1/5-1/4 in. long. From: Hiern, WP. 1904. XCV. Scrophulariaceae. In: WT Thiselton-Dyer (ed.). Fl. Cap. (Harvey) 4(1-3): 121-420. Lovell Reeve & Co., London. [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/15241#page/129/mode/1up] [All rights reserved]

Erect herb, up to 1 m high. Leaves opposite, erect or suberect, narrow, sessile. Racemes terminal, bracteate, elongated. Flowers racemose. Pedicels and calyx red. Corolla trumpet-shaped. Flowers mauve. From: Retief, E; Herman, PPJ. 1997. Plants of the northern provinces of South Africa: Keys and diagnostic characters. Strelitzia 6: 1-681. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]

Habitat

Vleis, streambanks. From: Retief, E; Herman, PPJ. 1997. Plants of the northern provinces of South Africa: Keys and diagnostic characters. Strelitzia 6: 1-681. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]

Distribution

Transvaal and tropical Africa. From: Hiern, WP. 1904. XCV. Scrophulariaceae. In: WT Thiselton-Dyer (ed.). Fl. Cap. (Harvey) 4(1-3): 121-420. Lovell Reeve & Co., London. [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/15241#page/129/mode/1up] [All rights reserved]

Flowering time

December to March

Altitude

1220 to 2140 m

Occurrence records map

This map contains point-based occurrences at different locations

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Residence status

Occurrence in the Flora of Southern Africa (FSA) countries and South African provinces. Residence status indicates if a taxon is indigenous, endemic, naturalised or invasive in a specific region. This data is based on specimen records and literature

FSA

SA

BOT

NAM

ESW

LES

WC

EC

NC

FS

GA

KZN

LP

MP

NW

Absent

Indigenous

Endemic

Naturalised

Invasive

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Names and Sources

Accepted name
Gerardiina angolensis Engl.
Synonym(s)

Classification

KINGDOM Plantae

SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae

SPECIES angolensis

13 results for Gerardiina angolensis Engl.

Specimen records

Barcode: PRE0567128-0 Collector(s) & number: Jacobsen, NHG, 5272 | 1996-5-10

Zimbabwe, Chimanimani. Sawerombi.

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Barcode: PRE0165208-0 Collector(s) & number: Rogers, FA, 234711 | 1920-2-

South Africa, Mpumalanga, SABIE

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Barcode: PRE0701468-0 Collector(s) & number: Compton, RH, 27863 | 1958-5-30

Eswatini, MBABANE DIST.; HAWANE FALLS

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Barcode: PRE0165207-0 Collector(s) & number: Schlechter, FRR, TRV 2305 | 1894-2-7

South Africa, Limpopo, HOUTBOS MT.

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Barcode: PRE0165201-0 Collector(s) & number: Galpin, EE, 13170 | 1933-1-8

South Africa, Mpumalanga, BELFAST DIST.; DULLSTROOM

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Barcode: PRE0742358-0 Collector(s) & number: Braun, KP, 640 | 1989-1-13

Eswatini, MALOLOTJA NAT. RES.; IN MALOLOTJA VLEI, EASTERN SIDE.

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Barcode: PRE0165205-0 Collector(s) & number: Bruce, EA, 61 | 1948-1-4

South Africa, Limpopo, MAGOEBASKLOOF; BONNIE BRAE; 3 MI. FROM MAGOEBASKLOOF

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Barcode: PRE0165204-0 Collector(s) & number: Van der Merwe, FZ, 308 | 1936-1-

South Africa, Limpopo, PIETERSBURG DIST.; HAENERTSBURG; MOOIVLEI FARM

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Barcode: PRE0165200-0 Collector(s) & number: Murray, GO, 8 | 1929-12-

South Africa, Limpopo, PIETERSBURG DIST.; HAENERTSBERG; MOUNTAIN HOME

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Barcode: PRE0722299-0 Collector(s) & number: Cameron, H, 369 | 1984-2-12

South Africa, Mpumalanga, LYDENBURG DIST; DULLSTROOM

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Barcode: PRE0165209-0 Collector(s) & number: Rogers, FA, 11600 | 1914-1-

Eswatini, MBABANE

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Barcode: PRE0165206-0 Collector(s) & number: Galpin, EE, 7228 | 1905-12-25

South Africa, Mpumalanga, MIDDELBURG DIST.; BELFAST STA.

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Barcode: PRE0165210-0 Collector(s) & number: Compton, RH, 31259 | 1962-1-19

Eswatini, MBABANE DIST.; FORBES REEF

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Plant occurence records per dataset

Plant occurence records per year

Occurrence records map

This map contains point-based occurrences at different locations

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1997

SERIES

Plants of the northern provinces of South Africa: Keys and diagnostic characters Retief, E; Herman, PPJ

Strelitzia 6: 1-681

National Botanical Institute, Pretoria

1904

FLORA CHAPTER

XCV. Scrophulariaceae Hiern, WP

In: WT Thiselton-Dyer (ed.). Flora Capensis 4(1-3)121-420

Lovell Reeve & Co., London

No results found for Gerardiina angolensis Engl.

Status

Status and criteria

NE

Assessor(s)

Plantae Coordinator

Bibliography

JOURNAL ARTICLE
Glen, H.F. 1981. Notes of African plants. Mesembryanthemaceae. Nomenclature in the genus Mestoklema. Bothalia. 14:454-455

JOURNAL ARTICLE
Glen, H.F. 1986. Numerical taxonomic studies in the subtribe Ruschiinae (Mesembryanthemaceae) - Astridia, Acrodon and Ebracteola. Bothalia. 16:203-226

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