| Family | SCROPHULARIACEAE |
| Genus species | Aptosimum lineare Marloth & Engl. |
| Bibliography | Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 10: 250 (1888) |
| Native Range | South Tropical Africa to Southern Africa |
| Primary Biome | Seasonally Dry Tropical |
| Habitat | sandy grassland |
| Altitude | 150-1800m |
| Description | branchlets densely leafy, leaves narrowly oblanceolate or linear, apiculate, sessile, 4-9cm, sparsely glandular-hirsute, flowers sessile, 2-3cm, calyx lobes hirsute |
| Size | 2-40cm |
| Color | deep blue |
| Bloom | summer |
| Ca | |
| Type | subshrub |
| Cultivation | sunny site with a poor, sandy soil alpine house, sandy soil, sun |
| Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 18-21°C cuttings in late summer |
| Synonyms | Aptosimum lineare var. acaule Emil Weber Aptosimum lineare var. angolense Emil Weber Aptosimum lineare var. ciliatum Emil Weber Aptosimum lineare var. randii (S.Moore) Emil Weber Aptosimum nelsii Emil Weber Aptosimum randii S.Moore |
| Territory | 2 Africa 23 West-Central Tropical Africa (ZAI Zaire) 26 South Tropical Africa (ANG Angola, MOZ Mozambique, ZIM Zimbabwe) 27 Southern Africa (BOT Botswana, CPP Cape Provinces, NAM Namibia, TVL Northern Provinces) |