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Bacopa monnieri L. Pennell [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 8, Part 2, (1990) Author: D. Philcox
Names
Monniera cuneifolia Michaux [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Fl. Bor. Amer. 2: 22 (1803). —Hiern in F.C. 4, 2: 355 (1904). —Hemsl. & Skan in F.T.A. 4, 2: 320 (1906) [as “Moniera”] pro parte excl. Herpestis crenata Beauv. Type from North America (Carolina).
Monniera africana Pers. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Syn. 2: 166 (1806). Type from Africa.
Herpestis monnieria L. Kunth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 366 (1818). —Benth. in Hook, Comp. Bot. Mag. 2: 58 (1836) [as “monniera”]; in DC., Prodr. 10: 400 (1846). —Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot: 223 (1861) nom. illegit.
Herpestis africana Pers. Steud. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Nom. Bot. ed. 1: 402 (1821). Type as above.
Bacopa monnieria L. Wettst. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Engl. & Prantl., Nat. Pflanzenfam. IV, 3B: 77 (1891) [as “monniera”]. —Engl., Pflanzenw. Ost-Afr. C: 357 (1895) nom. illegit.
Bacopa monnieri L. Pennell [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 98: 94 (1946). —Philcox in Kew Bull. 33: 679 (1979). Type from South America.
Lysimachia monnieri L. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Cent. Plant. 2: 9 (1756). Type as above.
Information
Creeping, glandular-punctate herb often rooting at nodes, glabrous; stems simple, rarely branched. Leaves 10–15 x 5–7 mm., obovate-cuneate to spathulate-oblong, entire or occasionally subcrenulate particularly towards apex, obtuse, glandular-punctate. Flowers solitary, axillary, blue, pedicellate, bracteate. Pedicels up to 25 mm. long at fruiting, always exceeding leaves. Bracts 2–3 mm. long, oblong. Calyx with lateral segments narrow, oblong; posterior 4–6 x 3–4 mm., broadly ovate; anterior c. 5 x 2.5 mm., ovate; no segments markedly prominently nerved. Corolla 6–7.5 mm. long, subequally 5-lobed. Capsule 2–2.5 mm. long, ovoid.
Habitat
Creeping, at rimes aquatic, marsh plant.
Range
Widespread throughout much of the tropics and subtropics
Distribution
Mozambique N Mozambique Is., Peters s.n. (K).
Bacopa monnieri L. Pennell [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
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