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Genus Selago Family Scrophulariaceae

Synonyms: Selago APNI*
Manettia APNI*

Description: Shrubs or subshrubs, usually much-branched or sometimes annual herbs.

Leaves alternate or the lower opposite, sometimes clustered, margins mostly entire or toothed.

Inflorescence terminal, spicate, capitate or paniculate, sometimes forming corymbs; flowers ± sessile, white, yellow or rose; bracts narrow or broad, slightly longer than calyx. Calyx shortly or deeply 5-lobed. Corolla tube short and broad or elongated, always ± dilated in the throat; limb ± equally 5-lobed or ± 2-lipped with posterior lip 2-lobed and shorter than the anterior 3-lobed lip with the central lobe longest. Stamens 4, didynamous, shortly or much exserted; filaments filiform; staminodes usually absent. Ovary 2-locular; style entire or minutely toothed at apex.

Fruit included in calyx, often separating into 2 mericarps.


Distribution and occurrence: World: c. 110 species, southern & tropical Africa. Australia: 2 species (naturalized), N.S.W.

This genus is often placed in the Globulariaceae.

Text by G. J. Harden
Taxon concept:

 Key to the species 
1Flowers in broad more or less corymbose panicles; flowers 2–3 mm long; leaves densely clustered in axils of stem leavesSelago corymbosa
Flowers in elongated panicles; flowers 4–6 mm long; leaves alternate or sparsely clusteredSelago canescens

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