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Lysimachia atropurpurea

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Name

Identification
Lysimachia atropurpurea L. [family PRIMULACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Lysimachia ephemerum
  • Lysimachia dubia
  • Lysimachia atropurpurea

Flora

Entry for LYSIMACHIA nutans Nees [family PRIMULACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 426, (1909) Author: By W. H. HARVEY, with additions by C. H. WRIGHT.
Names
LYSIMACHIA nutans Nees [family PRIMULACEAE], Del. Sem. Hort. Bonn. 1831;—Duby in DC. Prodr. viii. 61; Pax & Knuth in Engl. Pflanzenr. Primul. 294.
LYSIMACHIA atropurpurea Hook. [family PRIMULACEAE], Exot. Fl. t. 180, not of Linn.
Lubinia atropurpurea Link & Otto [family ], Ic. Pl. Sel. t. 27; Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. ser. 2, i. t. 34.
Coxia Endl. [family ], Gen. ii. 733.
Information
stem erect, subsimple; leaves opposite, alternate or in threes, lanceolate, acute or acuminate, narrowed at the base, pale beneath, with subrevolute roughish margins, glabrous; flowers in a dense, afterwards lengthening, terminal raceme; bracteoles linear-subulate, shorter than the pedicels; calyx much shorter than the corolla, with broadly linear, obtuse lobes; corolla tubular-bell-shaped; lobes eroso-denticulate at the apex; stamens exserted; style subulate. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Tarka Div.; bank of the Tarka River, Cooper, 336!COAST REGION Uitenhage Div.; between Hoffmanns Kloof and Drie Fontein, 1000–2000 ft., Drège! Zuurberg Range, near Bontjes River, 2000 ft., Drège! Albany Div.; banks of streams near Grahamstown, Burke! MacOwan, 137! Glass in MacOwan, Herb. Austr.-Afr., 1497! near Assegai Bush, Burchell, 4158! and without precise locality, Zeyher!
Notes
Stem 1–2 ft. high, leafy throughout; leaves 2–2 1/2 in. long, 1/2– 3/4 in. broad; raceme oblong, somewhat nodding; flowers dark purple, handsome.

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