- Genus:
- Vandellia L.
Vandellia diffusa L.

[UPFC]
- Distribution
- Biogeografic region: Amazonia, Andean, Guiana Shield, Caribbean, Orinoquia. Elevation range: 100–1500 m a.s.l. Naturalised in Colombia. Colombian departments: Amazonas, Antioquia, Bolívar, Boyacá, Casanare, Cauca, Cesar, Chocó, Cundinamarca, Guainía, Guaviare, Magdalena, Meta, Nariño, Norte de Santander, Putumayo, Santander, Tolima, Valle del Cauca, Vaupés, Vichada.
- Habit
- Herb.
- Conservation
- IUCN Red List Assessment (2021): LC. National Red List of Colombia (2021): Potential LC.
- Ecology
- Habitat according IUCN Habitats Classification: forest and woodland, savanna, shrubland, native grassland, wetlands (inland), artificial - terrestrial.
[UNAL]
Bernal, R., G. Galeano, A. Rodríguez, H. Sarmiento y M. Gutiérrez. 2017. Nombres Comunes de las Plantas de Colombia. http://www.biovirtual.unal.edu.co/nombrescomunes/
- Vernacular
- coneja, cuartillo, oreja de ratón, paraguay, yerba anís, yerba de pollo, yerba pollo
[UPB]
The Useful Plants of Boyacá project
- Ecology
- Alt. 100 - 1500 m.
- Morphology General Habit
- Herb.
- Distribution
- Native from Colombia.
- Conservation
- Not Evaluated.
[FTEA]
Scrophulariaceae, S.A. Ghazanfar, F.N. Hepper & D. Philcox. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2008
- Type
- Lectotype: Virgin Is, St. Thomas, Browne s.n., Herb. Linn. No. 795.3 (LINN), designated by Edmondson in Davis (ed.), Fl. Turkey 6 : 680 (1978)
- Morphology General Habit
- Annual, much branched, prostrate, 2.5–5 cm tall.
- Morphology Stem
- Stems up to 20 cm long, often rooting at lower nodes, quadrangular but not sharply so, short, white, patent hirsute throughout, mainly on angles
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves broadly ovate to subcircular, 12–19 (–25) mm long, 9–15(–19) mm wide, rounded to broadly cuneate at base, apex obtuse, margins finely crenate-serrate, glabrous above, shortly spreading hirsute on major veins beneath, somewhat densely ciliolate, 3-veined from base with mid vein once or twice clearly pinnately branched
- Morphology Leaves Petiole
- Petioles 1–2 mm long, densely hairy
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers solitary in axils mostly of upper leaves; pedicels 2–3.5 mm long in flower, extending to 4–8 mm in fruit, rather stout, densely hairy, ascending in fruit, never reflexed
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Calyx prominently 5ribbed, 3.5–4.5 mm long in flower, patent white-hirsute; lobes narrowly lanceolate to subulate, 1.8–2(–2.5) mm long, acuminate, ciliate; lobes accrescent to 3–5 mm long, widely spreading and distorted after dehiscence of capsule
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Corolla white or cream (“mauve blue”, Thomas 853), 5–6 mm long, tube ± 4.5 mm long; upper lip shallowly emarginate or minutely irregularly toothed; lower lip somewhat deeply 3-lobed with median lobe rounded to subtruncate, minutely dentate
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens 4, fertile; anterior filaments geniculate, gibbous at base below geniculation, minutely yellow-glandular
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Capsule oblong-ellipsoid, 7–7.5(–12) mm long, 2–3.5 mm broad
- Figures
- Fig 24, p 79
- Ecology
- Forest borders, damp grassland surrounding lakes and other standing water, path and roadsides; 1100–1250 m
- Conservation
- Least Concern (LC)
- Distribution
- Flora districts: T1 T 3 (fide Iverson, Usambara rain forest project, Uppsala, 1988). %West Africa from Sierra Leone to Cameroon, Gabon, Congo (Brazzaville), Central African Republic, Congo-Kinshasa, Burundi, Madagascar, Central and South America Flora districts: U3 U4
[CPLC]
Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co
- Distribution
- Nativa en Colombia; Alt. 100 - 1500 m.; Amazonia, Andes, Guayana y Serranía de La Macarena, Llanura del Caribe, Orinoquia, Valle del Magdalena.
- Morphology General Habit
- Hierba
- Conservation
- Preocupación Menor
Native to:
Angola, Benin, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Togo, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Uganda, Zambia, Zaïre
Introduced into:
Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Jawa, Leeward Is., Malaya, Mexico Central, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Thailand, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Windward Is.
- Spanish
- Paraguay, yerba de pollo, oreja de ratón.
Vandellia diffusa L. appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Dec 1, 2003 | Cable, S. [3480], Cameroon | Lindernia diffusa | K000198180 | No | |
Jan 1, 1990 | Thompson, S.A. [1601], Cameroon | Lindernia diffusa | K000028742 | No | |
Apr 1, 1989 | Sanford, W.W. [5453], Cameroon | Lindernia diffusa | K000028738 | No | |
Milne-Redhead, E. [3785], Zambia | Lindernia diffusa | 2569.000 | No | ||
Spruce, R. [s.n.] | Lindernia diffusa | K000202485 | No | ||
Rudatis, H. [6], Cameroon | Lindernia diffusa | K000028741 | No | ||
Migeod, F. [265], Cameroon | Lindernia diffusa | K000028739 | No | ||
Spruce, R. [s.n.] | Lindernia diffusa | K000202486 | No | ||
Coombe, D.E. [D.E.C. 226], Cameroon | Lindernia diffusa | K000028740 | No |
First published in Mant. Pl.: 89 (1767)
Accepted by
- Amith, J. & collaborators (2020). Nahuatl Learning Environment http://www.balsas-nahuatl.org/index.html.
- Jørgensen, P.M., Nee, M.H. & Beck., S.G. (eds.) (2013). Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de Bolivia Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 127: 1-1741. Missouri Botanical Garden.
- Sosef, M.S.M. & al. (eds.) (2016). Flore du Gabon 48: 1-158. Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.
- Sutthisaksopon, P., Chantaranothai, P. & Simpson, D.A. (2014). Two new records in the Linderniaceae of Thailand Thai Forest Bulletin (Botany) 42: 10-15.
Not accepted by
- Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192. [Cited as Lindernia diffusa.]
- Hepper, F.N. (ed.) (1963). Flora of West Tropical Africa, ed. 2, 2: 1-544. [Cited as Lindernia diffusa.]
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