Alectra hundtii Melch.
(name current July 2011)
(Alectra mundtii)
OROBANCHACEAE
Growth form:
Found within protected areas
Swaziland abundance: rare
Swaziland distribution: one locality
Description (Compton's Flora of Swaziland*): Alectra mundtii - Erect, branched or unbranched, up to 60 cm high, thinly rough-hairy throughout. Lower leaves stalkless, up to 1,5 cm long and nearly as wide, with few blunt teeth; upper leaves tapering to narrow point, up to 2 cm long x c 7 mm wide, with few short or long pointed teeth on each side. Calyx c 1 cm long with narrow pointed lobes, almost hairless; corolla of various shades of yellow, protruding shortly from calyx; whole flower often shorter than leaf in whose axil it is situated.
* Where species names have changed, these have been matched according to herbarium specimens quoted in this publication.
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