Distribution
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Tropical Africa, Himalaya, India, Burma, Indo-China.
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- Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
Derivation of specific name
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
parviflora: small-flowered
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- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Lindernia parviflora (Roxb.) Haines Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=151480
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- Mark Hyde
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- Bart Wursten
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- Petra Ballings
Description
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Erect, decumbent or ascending annual herb, 5-25 cm tall but usually smaller. Stems hairless or slightly pubescent, diffusely branched. Leaves opposite, mostly sessile, very variable, ovate, lanceolate or elliptic, 2-20 mm long, rarely longer, rounded or pointed at the apex; margin entire or sometimes shallowly toothed in larger leaves. Flowers axillary or in terminal racemes. Pedicel slender, 5-12 mm long, longer in fruit. Calyx 2-4 mm long, divided almost to the base into linear-lanceolate lobes. Corolla white to pale blue with darker blue markings, 3-12 mm long; upper lip shallowly emarginate or bifid; lower lip 3-lobed. Stamens 4 with 2 fertile. Capsule obovate-ellipsoid or subglobose, up to 4 × 3 mm.
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- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Lindernia parviflora (Roxb.) Haines Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=151480
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- Mark Hyde
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- Bart Wursten
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- Petra Ballings
Worldwide distribution
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
Widespread in tropical Africa, South Africa, Madagascar, Sri Lanka, India and Vietnam.
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- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Lindernia parviflora (Roxb.) Haines Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=151480
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings