- Family:
- Rubiaceae Juss.
- Genus:
- Oldenlandia L.
Oldenlandia pumila (L.f.) DC.

[FTEA]
Rubiaceae, B. Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1976
- Morphology General Habit
- Annual herb, much branched at the base; stems mostly prostrate, 3–17 cm. long, scabridulous on the ribs.
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaf-blades elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 0.5–1.6(–3) cm. long, 1–6 mm. wide, acute at the apex, narrowed to the base, minutely sparsely scabrid-setulose above, distinctly scabridulous on the margins, ± glabrous beneath; petioles not developed; stipule-sheath 0.5–2 mm. long, produced at the middle, with 3–5 unequal fimbriae up to 0.8(–1.2) mm. long.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers not heterostylous, usually solitary at the nodes, rarely apparently in terminal pedunculate 2–3-flowered cymes, or in axillary 2-flowered cymes; peduncle 3–9 mm. long; pedicels ± 2–3 mm. long, lengthening to 1.1(–1.9) cm. in fruit, sometimes minutely scabridulous.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Calyx-tube ellipsoid to subglobose, ± 1 mm. long; lobes triangular, 1–1.2(–3) mm. long, 0.5–1 mm. wide, minutely setulose on the margins.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Corolla white; tube 1 mm. long; lobes ovate, 0.6–0.7 mm. long and wide.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil
- Style 0.8–1 mm. long, hairy; stigma-lobes 0.7 mm. long.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Capsule oblong-ovoid, usually distinctly taller than wide, ± 2–3 mm. long, 1.5–2.2 (–2.8) mm. wide, beak 0.2–0.7 mm. tall.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds brown, obtusely broadly conic or ellipsoid, ± 0.3 mm. long, strongly reticulate.
- Figures
- Fig. 41/32, p. 271.
- Habitat
- Dried black cotton soil along lake shores (but unknown for Tanzania specimen); 480–990 m.
- Distribution
- T6 U2 an Asian species (India, Indo-China, W. part of Malesia) introduced into Africa and also found as a weed in Jamaica
Native to:
Andaman Is., Bangladesh, India, Jawa, Malaya, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam
Introduced into:
China Southeast, Christmas I., Fiji, Jamaica, Tanzania, Uganda
Oldenlandia pumila (L.f.) DC. appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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s.coll. [Cat. no. 6200] | Hedyotis pumila | K001123276 | Yes | ||
s.coll. [Cat. no. 6200], India | Hedyotis pumila | K001123278 | Yes | ||
s.coll. [Cat. no. 6200] | Hedyotis pumila | K001123274 | Yes | ||
s.coll. [Cat. no. 6200] | Hedyotis pumila | K001123275 | Yes | ||
s.coll. [Cat. no. 6200] | Hedyotis pumila | K001123277 | Yes | ||
Wall cat [6200], India | Oldenlandia crystallina | K000173186 | Yes | ||
Griffith [2912], India | Oldenlandia crystallina | K000173185 | Yes | ||
Griffith [s.n.], India | Oldenlandia crystallina | K000173183 | Yes | ||
Wight [1308], India | Oldenlandia crystallina | K000173184 | Yes |
First published in Prodr. 4: 425 (1830)
Accepted by
- Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
- George, A.S., Orchard, A.E. & Hewson, H.J. (eds.) (1993). Oceanic islands 2 Flora of Australia 50: 1-606. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra.
- Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Literature
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
- Backer, C.A. & Bakhuizen van den Brink, R.C. in Backer, C.A. & Bakhuizen van den Brink, R. C. (1965). Flora of Java 2: 1-641. N.V.P. Noordhoff, Groningen, The Netherlands.
- George, A.S., Orchard, A.E. & Hewson, H.J. (eds.) (1993). Oceanic islands 2 Flora of Australia 50: 1-606. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra.
- Smith, A.C. (1988). Flora Vitiensis Nova. A new flora for Fiji (Spermatophytes only) 4: 1-377. Pacific Tropical Botanical Garden, Lawai.
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Bremek. in Verh. K. Nederl. Akad. Wet., Afd. Natuurk., ser. 2, 48 (2): 250 (1952).
- DC., Prodr. 4: 425 (1830).
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