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Lobelia coronopifolia

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Identification
Lobelia coronopifolia L. [family LOBELIACEAE ]
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  • Lobelia coronopifolia

Flora

Entry for LOBELIA coronopifolia Linn. [family CAMPANULACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 3, page 530, (1894) Author: (By W. SONDER).
Names
LOBELIA coronopifolia Linn. [family CAMPANULACEAE], spec. p. 1322;—Thunb.! Fl. Cap. p. 134. Sieb. Fl. Cap. exs. n, 137. Breyn. Cent. t. 88. Burm. Afr. p. 98, t. 38, f. 1.
LOBELIA Thunbergii Sweet. [family CAMPANULACEAE], Hort. Brit. p. 247. Bot. Mag. t. 644. Reich. Ic. exot. 1, p. 61, t. 89.
Rapuntium coronopifolium Presl [family ], ! Prod. Lob. p. 20. E. & Z.! n. 2483. Herb. un. itin. n. 38, et. 485.
Rapuntium Simsii Presl [family ], ! E. & Z. n. 2485, non Lob. pedunculata Sims. Zey.! n. 1057, 3107.
Information
stem decumbent at the base, very leafy, hairy; leaves lanceolate, dentately-pinnatifid, hairy; teeth opposite, acute; peduncles elongated, naked, glabrous, 1–5-flowered; bractea linear-acuminate; pedicels bibracteolate; calyx tube ovoid-turbinate, hispid or appressed-hairy, nearly twice shorter than the lanceolate lobes; corolla 5–6 times longer than the calycine lobes; lips very unequal, lobes of the upper lanceolate, of the lower deeply trifid, segments obovate, mucronulate; ovary partly free. Sub-shrub, very like the preceding, but not tomentose, and the leaves usually broader and serrato-pinnatifid, spreading, hairy or glabrous, flat or concave above. Peduncles 1–5-flowered. Flowers large, sometimes 1 inch long, blue. Valves of capsule as long or longer than the base.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA In flats and mountains throughout the colony; var. δ, near Port Natal, Drege, R. W. Plant, n. 34. Gueinzius, n. 466. J. Sanderson, Dr. Sutherland, Gerr. & M‘K. n. 686. Sept.-Feb. (Herb. Thunb., Hook., D., Sd.)

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