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Vandellia diffusa

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Name

Identification
Lindernia diffusa (L.) Wettst. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] Verified by Hutchinson; Dalziel, Lindernia diffusa (L.) Wettst. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Hepper, F.N., Vandellia diffusa L. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Vandellia indet.
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  • Vandellia diffusa

Flora

Entry for LINDERNIA diffusa Wettst. [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 diffusa Wettst. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B. 80. —Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 763; Engl. in Schlechter, Westafrik. Kautsch.-Exped. 313.
Vandellia diffusa Linn. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Mant. i. 89; Benth in DC. Prodr. x. 416; Durand & Schinz, Études Fl. Congo, i. 210; De Wild. & Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo, i, fasc. 2. 45, and Reliq. Dewevr. 170.
Pyxidaria diffusa O. Kuntze [family HYMENOPHYLLACEAE], Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 464.
Information
A pubescent diffusely branched procumbent annual herb, the branches sometimes rooting at the lower nodes. Leaves very shortly petiolate or sessile, ovate-suborbicular, usually 6–7 lin. long, obtuse, rounded or somewhat cuneate at the base, crenate-serrate. Flowers solitary in the axils of all the upper leaves; peduncles scarcely 1 lin. long. Calyx 3–3 1/2 lin. long, sparingly and minutely pubescent; teeth subulate, 2 1/4–1 1/2 lin. long, unequal, the posticous longest. Corolla white or flesh-coloured, 3 1/2 lin. long; tube hairy inside from the base of the lower lip to half-way down. Anticous filaments with obovate or oblong very obtuse appendages. Capsule narrowly oblong, 4–7 lin. long, beaked.
Distribution
Sierra Leone Upper Guinea Regent, Scott-Elliot, 4013! Sugarloaf Mountain, Welwitsch, 5924! and without precise locality, Morson!Liberia Upper Guinea Kaka Town, Whyte!Gaboon Lower Guinea Munda; Sibange Farm, Soyaux, 338!Congo South Central Stanley Pool, Hens, 322! Kinchassa, Luja, and near Leopoldville, Dewèvre, 525!Gold Coast Upper Guinea Begoro, Johnson, 696!Lagos Upper Guinea between Ibadan and Abeokuta, Schlechter, 12341!Nigeria Upper Guinea Onitsa, Barter, 1766!Cameroons Upper Guinea Bipinde, Zenker, 1081! Batanga, Bates, 2! and without precise locality, Preuss, 1184!Fernando Po Upper Guinea Mann, 1441!
Distribution (external)
Madagascar
Tropical America

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