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Lobelia debilis

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Identification
Lobelia debilis Not on sheet. [family CAMPANULACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Lobelia nana
  • Diastatea micrantha
  • Lobelia laurentia
  • Lobelia debilis
  • Monopsis simplex
  • Lobelia not on sheet
  • Monopsis debilis
  • Lobelia simplex
  • Wahlenbergia debilis

Flora

Entry for MONOPSIS debilis Presl [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
MONOPSIS debilis Presl [family CAMPANULACEAE], ! Prod. Lob. p. 11;—Comm. pl. Dreg. p. 284. E. & Z. n. 2452. Deless. Icon. 5, v. t. 7.
Lobelia debilis Linn. fil. [family CAMPANULACEAE], ! Suppl. p. 395.
Lobelia Erinus Thunb. [family CAMPANULACEAE], ! fol. β. et γ. fl. Cap. p. 179, ex. pte.
Lobelia debilis Thunb. [family CAMPANULACEAE], in Herb. Holm., non in Herb. Thunb. Zey. n. 1052–3114.
Information
branches diffuse; leaves linear, acute, remotely serrate, subpilose or glabrous; pedicels erect or ascending, 2–4 times longer than the leaf; calyx-tube obconical, lobes linear-acuminate; tube of corolla a little longer than the calyx, with roundish, mucronulate lobes; capsule a little curved, acute or attenuate at the base. Very variable in size, from 2 inches to 1 foot, leafy, commonly branched from the base, the branches filiform or capillary. Leaves entire at the base, 6–12 lines long, 1/2–1 line wide. Peduncles 1–2 1/2 inches long. Corolla 4–6 lines long, lobes rotate. Capsule subincurved or horizontal, in var. α., 2–4 lines long, evidently 10-nerved, in var. β. usually shorter, 1–3 lines long, hispid or adpressed hairy, sometimes quite glabrous. The calyx-lobes are erect or spreading in the same specimen.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Moist places in the distr. of Cape, Stellenbosch and Worcester, var. β. near Capetown, Klypfontein, Brackfontein, etc. also near Magalisberg, Sept. Nov. (Herb. Thunb., Holm., Hook., D., Sd.)

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