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Used medicinally.
According to T. Yamazaki (Fl. Thailand 5(2): 198. 1990) Lindernia viaticaLinderniaviatica (Kerr ex Barnett) Philcox occurs in Taiwan. It closely resembles L. antipoda, but we have not
seen any specimens from Taiwan.
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Description
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Annuals to 30 cm tall. Roots fibrous, fascicled. Stems suberect or prostrate basally and rooting from lower nodes then ascending, many branched, channeled, glabrous. Petiole short and wide; leaf blade oblong, oblong-lanceolate, oblong-oblanceolate, or linear-lanceolate, 0.8-4 X 0.6-2 cm, glabrous, base cuneate and decurrent, margin obscurely to sharply serrate or subentire, apex acute to rounded. Racemes terminal, to 15 cm, 2-20-flowered; bracts subulate. Pedicel to 1.5 cm, ascending, spreading, to deflexed in fruit. Calyx lobed to base; lobes lanceolate, hispidulous along midrib and edges. Corolla purple, purplish white, or white, to 1 cm; tube to 7 mm; lower lip 3-lobed, lobes subequal; upper lip 2-lobed. Fertile stamens 2, posterior; filaments unapendaged. Reduced stamens 2, anterior; filaments slightly curved, glandular. Stigma lamellate. Capsule cylindric, 2 X or more as long as persistent calyx. Seeds brown, irregularly triangular-ovoid; seed coat reticulate. Fl. and fr. spring-autumn.
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Distribution
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Tropical and temperate Asia, Australia, Polynesia.
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Distribution
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Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang [Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Japan (Ryukyu Islands), Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam; Australia, Pacific Islands].
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Habitat
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Rice fields, wet grassland; below 1700 m.
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Synonym
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Ruellia antipoda Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 635. 1753; Bonnaya antipoda (Linnaeus) Druce; B. veronicifolia (Retzius) Sprengel; Gratiola veronicifolia Retzius; Ilysanthes antipoda (Linnaeus) Merrill; Lindernia veronicifolia (Retzius) F. Mueller; Vandellia veronicifolia (Retzius) Haines.
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Bonnaya antipoda: Brief Summary
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Bonnaya antipoda is a herbaceous perennial plant belonging to Linderniaceae family. It is native to tropical and sub-tropical Asia and Australia.
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