Lobelia linnaeoides (Hook.f.) Petrie
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Lobelia linnaeoides (Hook.f.) Petrie, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 23: 405 (1890 [1891])
Lobelia linnaeoides (Hook.f.) Petrie
Nomenclature
(Hook.f.) Petrie
Hook.f.
Petrie
1890
1891
405
linnæoides
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Lobelia linnaeoides
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Lobelia linnaeoides (Hook.f.) Petrie
Glab. herb with pale yellow acrid sap. Roots ∞, rather stout, far-spreading; stems and branches tough, ascending through rock-debris; branchlets appearing above surface, up to ± 10 cm. long. Lvs thick, coriac., on broad flat petioles ± 5 mm. long. Lamina ± 10-20-(25) × 10-15-(20) mm.; obovate to broad-oblong to elliptic in outline, cuneately narrowed to base; coarsely, deeply dentate; teeth very narrow-triangular, blunt, elongating to ± 6 mm. Fls ± 10 mm. long, on stout peduncles up to 5 cm. long. Calyx 5-7 mm. long, persistent; lobes linear, thick, obtuse, elongating to c. 8 mm. in fr. Corolla white, hardly > calyx, split to near base into 2 lips; upper lip with 2 narrow segs, lower 3-lobed to c. ⅓ way; anthers not awned. Capsule coriac., ± 10-12 mm. long, broad-obovoid to suborbicular.
Lobelia linnaeoides (Hook.f.) Petrie
n = 7
Lobelia linnaeoides (Hook.f.) Petrie
Glabrous or glabrate herb; sap clear. Stems to c. 15 mm tall, simple or sparingly branched, slender, rooting at nodes, usually decumbent. Lvs subsessile, 3-8 mm diam., ± orbicular, rather coarsely sinuate-dentate in upper 1/2, dark green, often purplish below, rather thick. Peduncles filiform, 5-6-(10) cm long. Calyx c. 4 mm long, divided to nearly 1/2 way; lobes c. 2 mm long, very narrow-triangular, acuminate. Corolla 5-10 mm long, white, pale blue or pale pink, deeper coloured in bud; upper lobes linear-oblong, acute; lower lobes obovate or obovate-oblong, ± apiculate. Capsule 5-9 mm long, narrow-obovoid to turbinate.
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Lobelia linnaeoides (Hook.f.) Petrie
Lobelia linnaeoides (Hook.f.) Petrie
Lobelia linnaeoides (Hook.f.) Petrie
Lobelia linnaeoides (Hook.f.) Petrie
Lobelia linnaeoides (Hook.f.) Petrie
Lobelia linnaeoides (Hook.f.) Petrie
Lobelia linnaeoides (Hook.f.) Petrie
Lobelia linnaeoides (Hook.f.) Petrie
Lobelia linnaeoides (Hook.f.) Petrie
Lobelia linnaeoides (Hook.f.) Petrie
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1 January 2000
30 April 2004