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Linaria elatine

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Name

Identification
Linaria macilentum Decne. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name); Nanorrhinum macilentum (Decne.) Betsche [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] Verified by Ghebrehiwet, Linaria bentii Skan [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] Linaria elatine (L.) Mill. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Linaria elatine
  • Chaenorhinum commutata
  • Linaria macilentum
  • Linaria fruitiandrene
  • Linaria bentii
  • Nanorrhinum macilentum
  • Kickxia elatine
  • Linaria aloysii

Flora

Entry for LINARIA Elatine Mill. [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
LINARIA Elatine Mill. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Gard. Dict. ed. viii. no. 16 (Elatina by error). —Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 268; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 113; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 376; Almagià in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, viii. 138.
Information
A slender softly hairy much-branched annual; branches up to 2 ft. long, prostrate or decumbent, wiry, terete. Leaves usually about 3/4 in. long and 1/2 in. broad, ovate, truncate, cordate or hastate at the base, minutely mucronate, entire or few-toothed near the base; petiole 1–3 lin. long. Peduncles 3–5 lin. long, axillary, solitary, slender, subglabrous or villous. Calyx 2 1/4 lin. long; segments linear-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, somewhat unequal. Corolla (including the spur) about 1/2 in. long, pale yellow, violet on the inside of the upper lip and near the base of the lower lip; spur 3 1/2 lin. long, straight or curved. Filaments pilose; anthers ciliate. Capsule slightly shorter than the calyx, globose, minutely puberulous, dehiscing by 2 oblique opercula.
Distribution
Eritrea Nile Land near Acrur, Schweinfurth & Riva, 1054! and various localities, Terracciano & Pappi.Abyssinia Nile Land Shoa, Quartin-Dillon & Petit, 220! Memsach, Schimper, 40! Gunnokle, Schimper, 712! Hawash and Maki Rivers, Wellby !
Distribution (external)
Europe
North Africa
Madeira
the Canary Islands
Notes
There is a marked difference in the degree of hairiness of the specimens cited.

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