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Bacopa monnieri

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Identification
Isotype of Bacopa monnieri (L.) Wettst. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Herbst, D.R., S. Sohmer & W.L. Wagner, 1985
Related name
  • Monnieria brownei
  • Monnieria peploides
  • Lysimachia monnieri
  • Portulaca exilis
  • Gratiola monnieria
  • Bacopa monnieri
  • Herpestes monniera

Flora

Entry for Bacopa monnieri (L.) Pennell [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by P. Cuccuini & C. Nepi (Alectra, Anticharis, Aptosimum, Scrophularia), E. Fischer (Bacopa, Craterostigma, Lindernia, Pseudosopubia, Rhabdotosperma, Stemodiopsis, Verbascum), Ghebrehiwet Medhanie (Nanorrhinum), M. Hjertson (Campylanthus, Lindenbergia), K.I. Mohamed & L.J. Musselman (Striga), M. Thulin (Camptoloma, Chaenorhinum, Cycnium, Ghikaea, Harveya, Misopates, Schweinfurthia, Veronica, Xylocalyx) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
Bacopa monnieri (L.) Pennell [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], (1946);
Lysimachia monnieri L. [family PRIMULACEAE], (1756). Fig. 186. [type as above]
Information
Perennial herb; stems 10–40 cm long, creeping to prostrate, glabrous, 4-angled, richly branched. Leaves sessile; blade ovate to spathulate, obtuse to subacuminate at apex, 6–20 x 1–5 mm, with entire margin. Inflorescence lax; pedicel 6–15 mm long.Calyx 5–6 mm long, 3 sepals ovate, 5–6 mm x 2.5 mm, 2 sepals lanceolate, 5–6 x 1.5 mm. Corollawhite to blue-violet,subrotate; tube 5 mm long; upper lip 2-lobed, 3–5 mm long; lower lip 3-lobed, 3–5 mm long.Filaments of lower stamens 1.5–2 mm long, of upper stamens 0.8–1 mm long; anthers with 2 equal thecae, 0.5–0.7 mm long.Capsule 5 x 3 mm.
Range
N1 pantropical
Altitude range
600–1400 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Bally 7287; Robertson 1384; Wood S/73/144.
Distribution (external)
Socotra
Mozambique
Madagascar

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