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Magnoliopsida
Lindernia All.
EOL Text
schweinfurthii: after Dr Georg August Schweinfurth (1836-1925), german botanical collector and taxonomist.
Annual or perennial herbs, sometimes aquatic. Leaves opposite, decussate, sometimes arranged in a rosette, rarely floating (e.g. in L. conferta); the venation usually palmate. Flowers solitary and axillary or arranged in terminal racemes. Calyx 5-lobed, tubular; tube ± 5-ribbed or -winged. Corolla 2-lipped; tube cylindric or somewhat campanulate above; upper lip erect, broad, concave, entire to deeply 2-fid; lower lip larger, spreading with 3 broad rounded lobes. Stamens usually 2 with 2 staminodes, rarely all 4 fertile. Nectary present, disc-like, at base of ovary. Ovary 2-locular; ovules many. Fruit a septicidal capsule. Seeds many, with a thin-walled epidermis.
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Rights holder/Author | Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings, Flora of Zimbabwe |
Source | http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1282 |
Depth range based on 8 specimens in 1 taxon.
Environmental ranges
Depth range (m): 1 - 1
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Rights holder/Author | Ocean Biogeographic Information System |
Source | http://www.iobis.org/mapper/?taxon_id=817253 |
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
Specimen Records:51
Specimens with Sequences:58
Specimens with Barcodes:49
Species:31
Species With Barcodes:31
Public Records:40
Public Species:29
Public BINs:0