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Lindernia brevidens

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Name

Identification
Lindernia brevidens Skan [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] Verified by Vollesen, K., Lindernia insularis Skan [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] Verified by Vollesen, K., Lindernia subreniformis Philcox [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Philcox, D.,
Related name
  • Lindernia diffusa
  • Lindernia subreniformis
  • Lindernia insularis
  • Lindernia brevidens

Flora

Entry for LINDERNIA brevidens Skan. [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
LINDERNIA brevidens Skan. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Information
Closely resembles L. diffusa in habit and foliage, but it is almost glabrous, and has longer peduncles and shorter calyx-teeth. Flowers axillary, solitary; peduncles 4 1/2 lin. long. Calyx 2 1/2 lin. long, 5-ribbed, the posticous and lateral ribs very narrowly winged; teeth 1/2– 2/3 lin. long, somewhat unequal, ovate, acute. Corolla 4 lin. long. Anticous filaments gibbous at the base. Capsule narrowly oblong, 6 lin. long, acuminate.
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Usambara, Buchwald, 295!

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