Anticharis senegalensis
| Family: | Scrophulariaceae |
| Full name: | Anticharis senegalensis (Walp.) Bhandari |
| Location: | Kyffhäuser (2416AD + 2416CB) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | - |
| English common name(s): | - |
| Synonym(s): | Anticharis arabica Hochst. ex Benth. - (1846), non Endl. (1839)-- nom.illegit. Anticharis aschersoniana Schinz Anticharis linearis (Benth.) Hochst. ex Asch. Anticharis linearis (Benth.) Hochst. ex Asch. var. azurea Dinter ex Schinz Anticharis longifolia Marloth & Engl. Doratanthera linearis Benth. Doratanthera senegalensis Walp. Gerardiopsis fischeri Engl. |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | An erect much-branched herb to 30 cm high or more, flowers pink or purplish; of semi-desert locations, in the Sahel, and across Africa to Arabia and India. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa) Annual herb, much branched, glandular-pubescent, up to c. 50 cm high, usually blue-black when dry. Leaves linear to narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, up to 5 x 0.4 cm. Pedicels up to c. 2 cm long, with bracteoles usually inserted above the middle. Corolla blue to pale mauve. Anthers ciliate, basal lobes acuminate. Capsule ovoid, acuminate or beaked, about twice as long as the calyx. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora Somalia) Erect annual, 7–33 cm high, drying blue-black, almost simple or more usually profusely branched, glandular-pubescent throughout; root simple. Leaves linear, 1–3.5 cm long, ±2 mm wide, sessile, base attenuate, apex acute, margins entire. Flowers blue with white throat, solitary; pedicels 8–12 mm long, with a pair of subulate bracteoles 1–2 mm long, inserted well above the middle. Calyx deeply divided, lobes ±3 mm long, joined only at the base, linear. Corolla tube 8–10 mm long; lobes blue with darker veins, ±2 mm long, rounded at the apex; anthers free or cohering, ciliate; style as long as the corolla tube; stigma slightly bifid. Capsule ovoid, 7–8 mm long, acutely beaked, dehiscing into 4 segments, minutely pubescent. Seeds oblong, 1 mm long, longitudinally ridged, minutely striated. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora of Tropical East Africa) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer) iNaturalist (Namibia) iNaturalist (southern Africa) Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Photographer: | AA Dreyer |
| Date of photograph: | 29 Apr 2011 |
| Camera make: | Panasonic |
| Camera model: | DMC-FZ45 |
| Lens aperture: | f/5.6 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/320 s |
| ISO speed: | 80 |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
