Torenia thouarsii Cham. & Schlechtend. Kuntze [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 8, Part 2, (1990) Author: D. Philcox
Names
Torenia thouarsii Cham. & Schlechtend. Kuntze [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Rev. Gen. Pl. 2: 468 (1891). —Hepper in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 2: 363 (1963). TAB.22, fig. A. Type from Mauritius.
Nortenia thouarsii Cham. & Schlechtend. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Linnaea 3: 18 (1828). Type as above.
Torenia parviflora Buch.-Ham. ex Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Scroph. Ind.: 39 (1835). —Benth. in DC., Prodr. 10: 410 (1846). —Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 4: 278 (1884). —Engl., Pflanzenw. Ost-Afr. C: 357 (1895). —Hiern, Cat. Afr. Fl. Welw. 1: 762 (1898). —Engl. in Schlechter, Westafr. Kautsch.-Exped.: 313 (as Torrenia) (1901). —Hemsl. & Skan in F.T.A. 4, 2: 335 (1906) excl. Lindernia senegalensis nom. illegit., superfl. based on Nortenia thouarsii.
Torenia ramosissima Vatke [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Oest. Bot. Zeitschr. 25: 10 (1875). Type from Zanzibar.
Information
Slender, straggling, procumbent or weakly ascending; stems simple or branched up to 40 cm. or more long, subpilose or often glabrous, quadrangular, sometimes rooting at nodes. Leaves 12–20(30) x 8–15 mm., broadly lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, shortly patent hirsute, acute or obtuse at apex, rounded, subtruncate or shortly cuneate at base, serrate to serrate-crenate, margin occasionally thickened. Petiole 0.5–3 mm. long, hirsute. Flowers white or pink, through blue to purple or mauve, solitary axillary or more usually 2–6 together, fascicled or on very small leafless branches. Bracts 1.25–4 mm. long, narrowly linear. Pedicels 4–22 mm. long, hirsute, somewhat reflexed in fruit Calyx 5–6 mm. long, up to 10 mm. long at fruiting, sparingly hirsute to subglabrous, narrowly winged, markedly so at fruiting. Corolla 10–12 mm. long. Capsule 7–9.5 mm. long, 2.5–3.25 mm. in diam., narrowly oblong-ellipsoid. Seeds pale yellow.
Habitat
Grasslands, marshes, swamps, lake- and riversides
Range
Widespread from West Africa, through Central and East Africa, Sudan, Angola and the Mascarene Islands. In the New World, it is recorded from Costa Rica and Trinidad and through South America from Venezuela to Bolivia and southern Brazil.
Altitude range
from c. sea-level to 1750 m.
1750
0
Distribution
Mozambique M Inhaca Island, 36 km. E. of Maputo (Lourenco Marques), fl. 17.vii.1959, Moss 29400 (K; SRGH).Mozambique MS Beira, 15 m., fl. 25.xii.1906, Swynnerton 1979 (BM).Malawi S Mulanje, fl. & fr. 24.ix.1932, Young 881 (BM).Mozambique Z Mocuba, Namagoa, 200 km. inland from Quelimane (Quilimane), 60–120 m., fl. ix.1943, Faulkner 86 (K).Zimbabwe S Chiredzi Distr., Gonarezhou, Save-Runde Rivers junction, Save R., fl. 31.v.1971, Grosvenor 580 (SRGH).Zambia W Mwinilunga Distr., Matonchi R. banks, fl. & fr. 23.x.1937, Milne-Redhead 2917 (K).Zambia N Mbereshi, Luapula R. swamp, 1050m., fl. & fr. 11.i.1960, Richards 12320 (K).Mozambique N Moginqual, fl. 15.xi.1936, Torre 1035 (LISC).Malawi N Mzimba Distr., Mzuzu, Marymount, c. 1400 m., fl. 14.ii.1974, Pawek 8109 (SRGH).Zimbabwe E Chipinge Distr., Musirizwe R., road to Mt. Selinda, 500 m., fl. & fr. 28.i.1975, Gibbs-Russell 2629 (BR; K; SRGH).Zambia B 16 km. N. of Senanga, c. 1030 m., fl. & fr. 31.vii.1952, Codd 7307 (BM; K).Botswana N Ng-Gokha (Ngokha) R., downstream from Xaenga, fl. & fr. 2.x.1975, Smith 1462 (BR; K; SRGH).
Torenia thouarsii Cham. & Schlechtend. Kuntze [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
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