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Oldenlandia herbacea

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Name

Identification
Oldenlandia herbacea (L.) Roxb. [family RUBIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Oldenlandia herbacea (L.) Roxb. [family RUBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Oldenlandia tenuis
  • Oldenlandia caespitosa
  • Oldenlandia holstii
  • Oldenlandia corymbosa
  • Hedyotis herbacea
  • Hedyotis dichotoma
  • Hedyotis heynei
  • Oldenlandia unrecorded
  • Oldenlandia tenerrima
  • Hedyotis micrantha
  • Oldenlandia heynei
  • Oldenlandia herbacea

Flora

Entry for OLDENLANDIA herbacea (L.) Roxb. [family RUBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by D. Bridson & M. Thulin (Pavetta), J. Degreef & D. Bridson (Coptosperma), and M. Thulin (Agathisanthemum, Canthium, Carphalea, Catunaregam, Coffea, Conostomium, Diodia, Feretia, Galium, Gardenia, Heinsia, Kohautia, Lamprothamnus, Meyna, Oldenlandia, Oxyanthus, Pachystigma, Paederia, Pentanisia, Pentanopsis, Pentas, Pentodon, Plocama, Polysphaeria, Psychotria, Psydrax, Pyrostria, Rothmannia, Rubia, Rytigynia, Spermacoce, Tennantia, Tricalysia, Valantia, Vangueria, Wendlandia) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
OLDENLANDIA herbacea (L.) Roxb. [family RUBIACEAE], (1814);
Hedyotis herbacea L. [family RUBIACEAE], (1753). [type as above]
Information
Annual or perennial herb; stems glabrous. Leaves sessile; blade linear to linear-lanceolate, 6–55 x 1–4 mm, acute at the apex, glabrous or almost so; stipule sheath up to c. 0.5 mm long, with a few c. 0.3 mm long setae. Flowers isostylous or heterostylous, solitary or paired at the nodes; pedicels (3–)8–30 mm long. Calyx-lobes narrowly triangular, 0.5–2.5 mm long. Corolla white, lilac or mauve; tube 2–11 mm long; lobes 1–3 mm long. Capsule 2.2–5 mm long, 1.5–2 mm wide, glabrous to shortly hairy; beak 0.8–1 mm long. Seeds brown, 0.2–0.4 mm long, reticulate.

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