PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / LAMIALES / SCROPHULARIACEAE / SELAGINEAE / SELAGO / TRIQUETRA

Selago triquetra L.f.
LC Indigenous Endemic
Morphological description

Dwarf woody shrublet c. 150-300 mm tall (no basal parts seen), ± virgately very well branched, old stems bare, up to c. 6 mm in diam., young branchlets puberulous, hairs up to 0.1 mm long, ± patent, closely leafy. Leaves opposite becoming alternate upwards, not fascicled, largest 2-4.5 x 0.5-1 mm, mostly spreading to recurved (but may be appressed initially), linear or narrowly elliptic, apex obtuse, base scarcely narrowed, decurrent, margins entire, texture thick (leaf broadly elliptic in T.S.), venation invisible when leaf hydrated, midrib appearing raised on lower surface when dry, glandular-punctate, otherwise glabrous except on decurrent part. Inflorescence a solitary many-flowered rather lax spike c. 10-45 x 7 mm terminating innumerable leafy branchlets, not overtopped by subsidiary spikes. Bract adnate to base of calyx tube and minute pedicel when present, lowermost 2-3.7 x 0.6-0.8 mm, lanceolate, ± obtuse, glandular-punctate, hairs up to 0.15-0.25 mm long on lower margins, back either glabrous or with a few minute hairs at base. Pedicel 0-0.1 mm. Calyx 1.5-2 mm long, campanulate, 5-lobed roughly halfway to base, two anticous lobes slightly broader than other three, hairs up to 0.15-0.25 mm long on margins, 0.1-0.15 mm long all over outside together with minute globular glands, glabrous inside. Corolla tube (2.2-)3-4 mm long (female flowers not uncommon, then all parts smaller), funnel-shaped, limb 3-5 mm across lateral lobes, posticous lobes 1.2-1.6 x 0.6-0.7 mm, anticous lobe 1.5-2.5 x 0.8-1 mm, all lobes oblong-elliptic, white. Stamens: posticous filaments 1.4-2.3 mm long, anticous filaments 1.5-2.3 mm, all anthers well exserted. Stigma and style c. 3.2-4.8 mm long, style glabrous. Ovary c. 0.6 x 0.3 mm, glabrous. Cocci 1.4-2 x 0.8-1 mm, red-brown, smooth, inner face plane, the pair of cocci held within the persistent calyx. From: Hilliard, OM. 1999. The Tribe Selagineae (Scrophulariaceae). Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. [All rights reserved]

Dwarf shrublet with virgate branches. Leaves not tufted, linear-oblong, spreading, usually shortly grey-hairy. Flowers in long, narrow spikes, solitary at tips of lateral branchlets, white. From: Manning, JC; Goldblatt, P. 2012. Scrophulariaceae: Selago L. In: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 754-761. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]

Diagnostic description

The characteristic features of S. triquetra are its virgate branching and long narrow spikes solitary at the tips of innumerable branchlets; the inside of the calyx, the style and ovary are all glabrous. Selago valliscitri is similar in facies. From: Hilliard, OM. 1999. The Tribe Selagineae (Scrophulariaceae). Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. [All rights reserved]

Habitat

On both slopes and flats. Ecological information is scanty, but 'flats', 'rocky slopes', 'watercourses in Mt. Rhenosterveld' and the inevitable roadsides have all been mentioned. From: Hilliard, OM. 1999. The Tribe Selagineae (Scrophulariaceae). Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. [All rights reserved]

Sandstone slopes. From: Manning, JC; Goldblatt, P. 2012. Scrophulariaceae: Selago L. In: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 754-761. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]

Distribution

Selago triquetra appears to have a very limited distribution from the environs of Worcester east to Robertson, Montagu and the nearby northern flanks of the Langeberg. From: Hilliard, OM. 1999. The Tribe Selagineae (Scrophulariaceae). Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. [All rights reserved]

Piketberg to Montagu. From: Manning, JC; Goldblatt, P. 2012. Scrophulariaceae: Selago L. In: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 754-761. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]

Flowering time

July to August

Altitude

250 to 750 m

Occurrence records map

This map contains point-based occurrences at different locations

iNaturalist: BODATSA: Data partners records:

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

Names and Sources

Accepted name
Selago triquetra L.f.

Published in: Suppl. Pl.: 284 (1782)

Synonym(s)

Selago ericina E.Mey.


Classification

KINGDOM Plantae

SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae

PHYLUM Anthophyta

ORDER Lamiales

FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

TRIBE Selagineae

GENUS Selago

SPECIES triquetra

22 results for Selago triquetra L.f.

Narrow your results

Narrow your results

Specimen records

Barcode: NBG1476989-0 Collector(s) & number: Compton, RH, 14988 | 1943-9-28

South Africa, Western Cape, Malmesbury. Malmesbury C.P.

Data Resource: BODATSA View record

Barcode: PRE0156213-0 Collector(s) & number: Acocks, JPH, 20532 | 1959-7-27

South Africa, Western Cape, MONTAGU; OUDEBERG; OUDEBERG N.E. OF MONTAGU

Data Resource: BODATSA View record

Barcode: NBG1476994-0 Collector(s) & number: Compton, RH, 18378 | 1946-9-23

South Africa, Western Cape, Montagu, C.P. Eendracht [19.89347,-33.61768]

Data Resource: BODATSA View record

Barcode: NBG1476988-0 Collector(s) & number: Boucher, C, 2984 | 1975-12-1

South Africa, Western Cape, Oude Post Private Nature Reserve, Perlemoen Point, Langebaan Peninsula.

Data Resource: BODATSA View record

Barcode: NBG1476984-0 Collector(s) & number: Hilton-Taylor, C, 2307 | 1987-9-2

South Africa, Western Cape, Middelstekloof on Farm Middelburg. 14 km NW of Robertson.

Data Resource: BODATSA View record

Barcode: PRE0155259-0 Collector(s) & number: Schmidt, AA, 22 | 1942-7-

South Africa, Western Cape, ROBERTSON

Data Resource: BODATSA View record

Barcode: NBG1476983-0 Collector(s) & number: Hilton-Taylor, C, 2307 | 1987-9-2

South Africa, Western Cape, Middelstekloof on farm Middelburg. 14 km NW of Robertson.

Data Resource: BODATSA View record

Barcode: PRE0839299-0 Collector(s) & number: Acocks, JPH, 14542 | 1948-6-27

South Africa, Western Cape, Worcester District: Near Mowers Siding to East.

Data Resource: BODATSA View record

Barcode: PRE0155258-0 Collector(s) & number: Tyson, W, 970 | --

South Africa, Western Cape, WORCESTER; MT. NEAR WORCESTER

Data Resource: BODATSA View record

Barcode: NBG1476990-0 Collector(s) & number: Walters, IB, 166 | 1975-7-22

South Africa, Western Cape, Olifantsberg Worcester road.

General notes: Conf. O.M. Hilliard 1997

Data Resource: BODATSA View record

Barcode: NBG1476986-0 Collector(s) & number: Olivier, MC, 267 | 1963-8-

South Africa, Western Cape, Kaap. Worcester. Veldreservaat. Laagliggende dele.

Data Resource: BODATSA View record

Barcode: NBG1476991-0 Collector(s) & number: Smith, E, STEU J 32 | 1989-3-29

South Africa, Western Cape, Villiersdorp district. Jonaskop.

Data Resource: BODATSA View record

Barcode: PRE0155274-0 Collector(s) & number: van Breda, NG, 8 | 1937-7-

South Africa, Western Cape, WORCESTER; VELD RES.

Data Resource: BODATSA View record

Barcode: PRE0155276-0 Collector(s) & number: Van Breda, 40 | 1954-7-

South Africa, Western Cape, WORCESTER; VELD RES.

Data Resource: BODATSA View record

Barcode: NBG1476996-0 Collector(s) & number: Hermann, L, s.n. | 1992-9-

South Africa, Western Cape, Tulbagh

Data Resource: BODATSA View record

Barcode: PRE0156218-0 Collector(s) & number: Esterhuysen, EE, 30466 | 1963-11-3

South Africa, Western Cape, CERES DIV.; KAROOPOORT

Data Resource: BODATSA View record

Barcode: NBG1476992-0 Collector(s) & number: Nel, GC, s.n. | 1929-8-16

South Africa, Western Cape, Robertson

Data Resource: BODATSA View record

Barcode: NBG1476993-0 Collector(s) & number: Compton, RH, 18396 | 1946-9-23

South Africa, Western Cape, Kiesiesberg. Montagu, C.P. [3320CA?]

Data Resource: BODATSA View record

Barcode: NBG1476985-0 Collector(s) & number: Jooste, JF, 47 | 1971--

South Africa, Western Cape, McGregor district, on farm Vrolikheid".

Data Resource: BODATSA View record

Barcode: PRE0157383-0 Collector(s) & number: Bolus, H, A 13630 | 1892-10-

South Africa, Western Cape, PIQUETBERG

Data Resource: BODATSA View record

Barcode: PRE0157385-0 Collector(s) & number: Bolus, H, 13630 | 1892-10-

South Africa, Western Cape, PIQUETBERG

Data Resource: BODATSA View record

Barcode: NBG1476987-0 Collector(s) & number: Dryfhout, P, 4196 | 1986-8-15

South Africa, Western Cape, 22 km NO van Nuy langs grondpad na R60.

Data Resource: BODATSA View record

Plant occurence records per dataset

Plant occurence records per year

Occurrence records map

This map contains point-based occurrences at different locations

iNaturalist: BODATSA: Data partners records:

2012

SERIES CHAPTER

Scrophulariaceae: Selago L. Manning, JC; Goldblatt, P

In: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 754-761

South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria

1999

BOOK

The Tribe Selagineae (Scrophulariaceae) Hilliard, OM

Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh

1901

FLORA CHAPTER

Selagineae Rolfe, RA

In: WT Thiselton-Dyer (ed.), Acanthaceae to Proteaceae. Flora Capensis 5: 95-180

Lovell Reeve & Co., London

No results found for Selago triquetra L.f.

Status

Status and criteria

LC

Assessor(s)

Plantae Coordinator

Bibliography

JOURNAL ARTICLE
Manning, J.C., Maluleke, R., Ebrahim, I. and Helme, N.A. 2021. The genus Freylinia Pangella ex Colla (Scrophulariaceae: Teedieae): a re-assessment of the systematics and conservation status. South African Journal of Botany. 142:352-369

JOURNAL ARTICLE
Manning, J.C., Martínez-Azorín, M. and Crespo, M.B. 2007. A revision of Ornithogalum subgenus Aspasia section Aspasia, the chincherinchees (Hyacinthaceae). Bothalia. 37:133-164

JOURNAL ARTICLE
Manning, J.C., Mucina, L. and Magee, A.R. 2013. Cotula sericea resolved as the correct name for the mysterious C. fallax (Asteraceae: Anthemidae), with new synonyms and the new combination Cotula discolor. South African Journal of Botany. 88:237-242

JOURNAL ARTICLE
Manning, J.C. and Norris, F.G. 1985. Taxonomic studies in the Acanthaceae: A reappraisal of the genera Duvernoia and Adhatoda in southern Africa. South African Journal of Botany. 51:475-484

JOURNAL ARTICLE
Manning, J.C. and Oliver, E.G.H. 2009. Hyacinthaceae: Drimia oliverorum (Urgineoideae), a new species from southern Namibia. Bothalia. 39:225-227

JOURNAL ARTICLE
Manning, J.C. and Smith, G.F. 2000. Asphodelaceae: Alooideae. The genus Poellnitzia included in Astroloba.. Bothalia. 30:53

Part(s) of plant used Use(s) Reference

Coming soon...