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Lobelia erinus L.

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Lobelia erinus L.
Lobelia erinus L.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Lobelia erinus L.
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Lobelia erinus

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erinus

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Lobelia erinus L.

Annual herb to c. 20 cm tall, sometimes single-stemmed with the slender vegetative shoots tending to trail, but not rooting at nodes; sap slightly milky. Lower lvs and those of vegetative stems with short ciliate petioles. Lamina 1-3 × 0.5-1 cm, elliptic, elliptic-obovate, or spathulate, occasionally lanceolate, generally ciliate, especially towards the narrow attenuate base and on the midrib beneath, crenate or dentate. Lvs below infl. linear or lanceolate, entire, usually glabrous. Infl. a loose raceme of few fls on slender glabrous peduncles 1.5-4 cm long. Calyx 7-12 mm long; lobes linear or subulate, = to > 2× tube, glabrous, often purplish. Corolla 1.1-1.7 cm long to apex of lobes of lower lip, usually dark or violet blue, occasionally pinkish mauve; lower lip usually with white or yellowish throat bands on either side, occasionally corolla concolorous, 3-lobed; lobes (5)-7-10 × c. (3)-5 mm, ± broad-elliptic-oblong or obovate, slanting downwards, often mucronulate. Stamens blue; lower 2 anthers bearded at apex. Capsule c. 5 mm long, narrow-obconic. Seeds c. 0.5 mm long, ellipsoid, brown, glossy.

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Lobelia erinus L.
New Zealand
Lobelia erinus L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Lobelia erinus L.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Lobelia erinus L.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Lobelia erinus L.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Lobelia erinus L.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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1 January 2000
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