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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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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Lindernia Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1282
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Lindernia

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The genus Lindernia is a group of plants in the family Linderniaceae. They are native to warm regions in both the Eastern and Western Hemisphere.[1]

The genus name of Lindernia is in honour of Franz Balthasar von Lindern (1682–1755), French doctor and botanist in Strasbourg and also university botanical garden director.[2]

Lindernia consists of 30 species in its most recent circumscription.[3]

Species list

References

  1. ^ Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States
  2. ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  3. ^ Fischer, Eberhard; Schäferhoff, Bastian; Müller, Kai (December 2013). "The phylogeny of Linderniaceae — The new genus Linderniella, and new combinations within Bonnaya, Craterostigma, Lindernia, Micranthemum, Torenia and Vandellia". Willdenowia. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin. 43 (2): 209–238.
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Lindernia: Brief Summary

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The genus Lindernia is a group of plants in the family Linderniaceae. They are native to warm regions in both the Eastern and Western Hemisphere.

The genus name of Lindernia is in honour of Franz Balthasar von Lindern (1682–1755), French doctor and botanist in Strasbourg and also university botanical garden director.

Lindernia consists of 30 species in its most recent circumscription.

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