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Hedyotis herbacea

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Name

Identification
Hedyotis herbacea L. [family RUBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Oldenlandia heynei R.Br. [family RUBIACEAE ] Verified by Henry Trimen, Oldenlandia herbacea (L.) Roxb. [family RUBIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Oldenlandia affinis
  • Hedyotis unrecorded
  • Hedyotis setifera
  • Oldenlandia caffra
  • Oldenlandia heynei
  • Oldenlandia herbacea
  • Hedyotis herbacea
  • Kohautia virgata
  • Oldenlandia senegalensis
  • Hedyotis lancifolia
  • Oldenlandia unrecorded
  • Kohautia senegalensis
  • Oldenlandia stricta
  • Oldenlandia lancifolia
  • Oldenlandia dichotoma

Flora

Entry for OLDENLANDIA herbacea (L.) Roxb. [family RUBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by D. Bridson & M. Thulin (Pavetta), J. Degreef & D. Bridson (Coptosperma), and M. Thulin (Agathisanthemum, Canthium, Carphalea, Catunaregam, Coffea, Conostomium, Diodia, Feretia, Galium, Gardenia, Heinsia, Kohautia, Lamprothamnus, Meyna, Oldenlandia, Oxyanthus, Pachystigma, Paederia, Pentanisia, Pentanopsis, Pentas, Pentodon, Plocama, Polysphaeria, Psychotria, Psydrax, Pyrostria, Rothmannia, Rubia, Rytigynia, Spermacoce, Tennantia, Tricalysia, Valantia, Vangueria, Wendlandia) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
OLDENLANDIA herbacea (L.) Roxb. [family RUBIACEAE], (1814);
Hedyotis herbacea L. [family RUBIACEAE], (1753). [type as above]
Information
Annual or perennial herb; stems glabrous. Leaves sessile; blade linear to linear-lanceolate, 6–55 x 1–4 mm, acute at the apex, glabrous or almost so; stipule sheath up to c. 0.5 mm long, with a few c. 0.3 mm long setae. Flowers isostylous or heterostylous, solitary or paired at the nodes; pedicels (3–)8–30 mm long. Calyx-lobes narrowly triangular, 0.5–2.5 mm long. Corolla white, lilac or mauve; tube 2–11 mm long; lobes 1–3 mm long. Capsule 2.2–5 mm long, 1.5–2 mm wide, glabrous to shortly hairy; beak 0.8–1 mm long. Seeds brown, 0.2–0.4 mm long, reticulate.

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