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Limnophila gratioloides

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Name

Identification
Limnophila gratioloides R.Br. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] Limnophila indica (L.) Druce [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by David Philcox,
Related name
  • Limnophila griffithii
  • Limnophila glabra
  • Limnophila gratioloides
  • Stemodia unrecorded
  • Stemodia serrata
  • Stemodia senegalensis
  • Limnophila indica

Flora

Entry for LIMNOPHILA gratioloides R. Br. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol IV, Part 2, page 264, (1905) Author: (By W. Botting Hemsley and S. A. Skan).
Names
LIMNOPHILA gratioloides R. Br. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Prodr. i. 442. —Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 271; S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1900, 467.
Ambulia gratioloides Baill. ex Engl. [family ], Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 357; Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 401.
Information
Stems slender, glabrous or minutely glandular-pubescent above, branched or simple, from a few inches to upwards of 2 ft. (usually about 6 in.) long. Leaves very variable; lower submerged ones in whorls of 6 to many, usually multifid; upper whorled or sometimes opposite, dentate, incised or multifid; uppermost opposite, linear to elliptic-oblong. Flowers axillary; pedicels 2–6 lin. long, usually glandular-pubescent; bracteoles setaceous, obtuse, 1–1 1/2 lin. long. Calyx 2–2 1/2 lin. long, membranous, glandular-pubescent and gland-dotted; teeth 3/4 lin. long, scarcely acute. Corolla 3–4 lin. long. Anthers coherent in pairs, or those of the shorter stamens alone coherent; cells very shortly stipitate. Style bent near the apex with 2 minute auricles at the bend. Capsule somewhat shorter than the calyx, glabrous.
Distribution
Senegal Upper Guinea Roger!British East Africa Nile Land Jur: Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 2603! Gazelle River, at the mouth of the Bahr el Arab, Schweinfurth, 1186!German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Northern Kinga Mountains; Ussangu, 4000 ft., Goetze, 1030!Portuguese East Africa Mozamb. Dist. ! Quilimane, Scott!Togo Upper Guinea near Lome, Warnecke, 230!Rhodesia Mozamb. Dist. Salisbury, Rand, 518!
Distribution (external)
Beluchistan
India
China
Malaya
Australia

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