- Family: Plantaginaceae Juss.
Limosella L.
This genus is accepted, and is native to Europe, Africa, Antarctic, Southern America, Northern America, Antipodean Island and Asia-Temperate..
Descriptions
According to Flora of Tropical East Africa
[FTEA]Scrophulariaceae, S.A. Ghazanfar, F.N. Hepper & D. Philcox. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2008
- Habit
- Small annual or perennial aquatic herbs, with slender stolons rooting to form new plants, glabrous
- Leaves
- Leaves fascicled or in rosettes, erect or floating, long-petiolate, cylindrical or with distinct lamina
- Flowers
- Flowers axillary, pedicels often deflexed in fruit
- Calyx
- Calyx campanulate, (4–)5-toothed, teeth equal or calyx ± 2-lipped
- Corolla
- Corolla tube cylindrical, (4–)5-lobed, almost actinomorphic; lobes ovate or ovate-triangular to lanceolate, ± pilose on the upper side
- Stamens
- Stamens 4 (2 short, 2 long)
- Gynoecium
- Ovary 2-locular; style variable in length; stigma capitate, papillose, ± 2 lobed
- Fruits
- Fruit capsular, dehiscing loculicidally by 2-valves
- Seeds
- Seeds few to numerous, minute, longitudinally multi-angular with fine transverse striations.
- Note
- All the species appear to be variable, and their taxonomy is imperfectly understood. Part of the problem lies is the presence of ecotypes found in deep water, shallow water and mud. This account basically follows the treatment by Glück (op. cit.), but a full revision of the genus is still required.
According to Flora Zambesiaca
[FZ]Scrophulariaceae, D. Philcox. Flora Zambesiaca 8:2. 1990
- Habit
- Small, glabrous, tufted, creeping or floating, marsh or aquatic herbs.
- Stem
- Stemless or with slender stolon-like stems rooting at nodes.
- Leaves
- Leaves radical or fasciculate at nodes, rarely alternate on stems or branches, petiolate, erect or floating; lamina linear and petiole-like, spathulate or oblong-ovate.
- Peduncles
- Peduncles axillary, ebracteate, of ten shorter than leaves, frequently deflexed in fruit.
- Flowers
- Flowers small.
- Calyx
- Calyx campanulate, thin, (4)5-lobed, persistent.
- Corolla
- Corolla tubular, campanulate, subrotate; limb 5-lobed, spreading, lobes subequal, rounded, ovate or oblong.
- Stamens
- Stamens four, didynamous, usually exserted; filaments filiform, inserted on corolla tube.
- Pistil
- Ovary shortly bilocular at base; ovules many; style short, incurved, apically thickened.
- Fruits
- Fruit capsular, ovoid to subglobose or spherical, bivalved, loculicidally dehiscent.
- Seeds
- Seeds numerous, striate, rugulose.
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Distribution
Native to:
Aleutian Is., Altay, Amur, Angola, Antipodean Is., Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil South, Buryatiya, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central European Rus, Chile Central, Chile North, Chile South, China Southeast, Chita, Colombia, Colorado, Costa Rica, Crozet Is., Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Is., Finland, France, Free State, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Guatemala, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Kamchatka, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kerguelen, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Krym, Kuril Is., KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Magadan, Malawi, Mali, Marion-Prince Edward, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands, New Mexico, North European Russi, Northern Provinces, Northwest European R, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Romania, Rwanda, Sakhalin, South European Russi, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Tanzania, Uganda, Ukraine, Venezuela, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
Extinct in:
Delaware
Accepted Species
- Limosella acaulis Sessé & Moc.
- Limosella africana Glück
- Limosella aquatica L.
- Limosella australis R.Br.
- Limosella capensis Thunb.
- Limosella curdieana F.Muell.
- Limosella grandiflora Benth.
- Limosella granitica W.R.Barker
- Limosella inflata Hilliard & B.L.Burtt
- Limosella longiflora Kuntze
- Limosella macrantha R.E.Fr.
- Limosella major Diels
- Limosella pretoriensis Suess.
- Limosella pubiflora Pennell
- Limosella tenella Quézel & Contandr.
- Limosella vesiculosa Hilliard & B.L.Burtt
Synonyms
Other Data
Limosella L. appears in other Kew resources:
Bibliography
First published in Sp. Pl.: 631 (1753)
Literature
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- Glück in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 66: 488 (1934).
- —F.T.A. 4, 2: 352
Flora Zambesiaca
- Glück in Engl., Bot. Jahrb.66: 488–566, t. 6–8 (1934).
- Sp. Pl. 2:631 (1753).
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- E.J. 66: 488–566, t. 6–8 (1934)
- N.B.G.B. 12: 77 (1934)
- Sp. P1.: 631 (1753)
Sources
Flora Zambesiaca
Flora Zambesiaca
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0