Original Research

Jamesbrittenia bergae (Scrophulariaceae), a distinctive new species from Limpopo, South Africa

P. Lemmer
Bothalia | Vol 33, No 2 | a441 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/abc.v33i2.441 | © 2003 P. Lemmer | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 04 September 2003 | Published: 09 September 2003

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P. Lemmer,, South Africa

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Abstract

Jamesbrittenia bergae P.Lemmer is a new species from the Farm Brakvallei near Thabazimbi in Limpopo [Northern Province]. Large, medium-textured. bright scarlet flowers w ith yellow throats are borne singly in upper leaf axils; the flowering branches, although terminal, do not form elongated racemes: leaves are greyish green, coarsely serrated. It grows in full sun on ferricrete outcrops.


Keywords

<i>Jamesbrittenia</i> Kuntze; Limpopo [Northern Province]; Manuleae; new species; Scrophulariaceae; Thabazimbi

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