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Lindernia parviflora Roxb. Haines [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]

Date Updated: 26 July 2007

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
Ilysanthes parviflora Roxb. Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in DC., Prodr. 10: 419 (1846). —Skan in F.T.A. 4, 2: 346 (1906). —Hepper in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 2: 365, fig. 289 (1963). Type as above. Lindernia parviflora Roxb. Haines [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Bot. Bihar & Orissa 4: 635 (1922). Type from India. Gratiola parviflora Roxb. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Pl. Corom. 3: 3, t. 203 (1811). Type as above. Bonnaya parviflora Roxb. Benth. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], in Wall. Cat. 3867 (1831). —Benth., Scroph. Ind.: 34 (1835). Type as above.
Information
Erect, decumbent or ascending annual, 5–15(25) cm. tall, glabrous; stems usually diffusely branched, glabrous to rarely slightly pubescent. Leaves sessile or shortly petiolate, 2–15(38) x 0.75–5(13) mm., opposite, ovate, ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, acute or obtuse, entire, or larger leaves occasionally minutely, shallowly dentate, l-3(5)-nerved. Petiole 0–2 mm. long. Flowers axillary or in terminal racemes, slender pedicellate. Pedicels (5)7–12 mm. long in flower, extending in fruit 9–17(25) mm. long. Calyx (1.25)2–4 mm. long, glabrous, divided almost to base; lobes up to 0.5 mm. wide, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, acute. Corolla white or pale blue, 4–7 mm. long, upper lip emarginate to shallowly bifid. Fertile stamens two, filaments 0.4–1 mm. long; staminodes two, 0.25–0.5(1) mm. long, slender, clavate at apex occasionally with short spur c. 0.75 mm. long, just below. Capsule 1.5–4.5(6) x 1.25–1.75(2.5) mm., obovate- or cylindric-ellipsoid to nearly subglobose, usually longer than calyx.
Habitat
Sandy or muddy river- or streambanks in area of floodplain, wet areas around, and in ephemeral pools on, rocky outcrops, muddy margins of seasonal or permanent pans
Altitude range
100–1450 m. 1450 100
Distribution
Mozambique M Umbeluzi, fl. & fr. 7.iv.1949, Myre 500 (K).Mozambique GI Xai Xai (Vila João Belo), near Chongoene, fl. & fr. 16.vii.1944, Torre 6778 (LISC).Zimbabwe S Mwenezi Distr., Malangwe R., SW. of Mateke Hills, 610 m., fl. & fr. 5.v.1958, Drummond 5579 (BR; K; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Chipinge Distr., Tanganda R. Valley, 730 m., fl. & fr. 17.v.1962, Chase 7736 (K).Zimbabwe C Harare Distr., fl. & fr. 3.iv.1952, Wild 3805 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe W Victoria Falls, Rain Forest, 915 m., fl. iv.1918, Eyles 1268 (K; SRGH).Zambia S Choma, Mapanza, fl. & fr. 16.iii.1958, Robinson 2796 (K; SRGH).Zambia W Mwinilunga Distr., by R. Matonchi, fl. & fr. 11.xi.1937, Milne-Redhead 3194 (BR; K).Mozambique Z above Morrumbala Marsh, fl. v.1888, Scott s.n. (K).Malawi S Zomba Distr., W. of Lake Chilwa, 600 m., fl. & fr. 21.vi.1962, Robinson 5402 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe N Binga Distr., valley S. of Binga Hill, c. 457 m., fl. & fr. 10.xi.195S, Phipps 1432 (BR;K; P; SRGH).Zambia B Sichili, fl. & fr. 5.vii.1963, Fanshawe 7902 (BR; K; SRGH).Botswana N Okavango, near Kinkogo Tsetse Camp, 900 m., fl. 14.iii.1961 Richards 14706 (K).
Distribution (external)
West Africa Sudan Ethiopia East Africa Madagascar Namibia India
Lindernia parviflora Roxb. Haines [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
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