Synonyms: Bazina APNI*
Bonnaya APNI*
Hornemannia APNI*
Ilyogeton APNI*
Tittmania APNI*
Vandellia APNI*
Description: Annual [or perennial] herbs, glabrous or sparsely hairy.
Leaves opposite, sometimes clustered into a basal rosette.
Flowers solitary or few in leaf axils, or in axillary or terminal racemes; bracteoles absent. Sepals ± free or fused into an equally 5-toothed tube. Corolla 2-lipped; tube shorter than the calyx; upper lip entire, emarginate or 2-lobed, lower lip 3-lobed or 3-fid. Stamens 4 and didynamous [or 2 stamens and 2 staminodes]; filaments spurred; anthers 2-locular. Stigma obscurely 2-lobed, subcapitate.
Capsule thin-walled, 2- or 3-valved, septum remaining attached to the inner column, separate from the valves; seeds numerous, reticulate.
Distribution and occurrence: World: c. 66 species, temperate regions, especially Africa, Asia, Malesia & Aust, Australia: c. 44 species (all except 2 species native), Qld, N.S.W., N.T., W.A.
Text by W. R. Barker. Distribution and occurrence edited by Kerry Gibbons, 21 Apr. 2023.
Taxon concept: Distribution and occurrence: Kew Plants of the World Online; Australian Plant Census [both accessed 21 Apr. 2023].
| | Key to the species | |
| 1 | Leaves and sepals glabrous | Lindernia alsinoides |
| Leaves, bracts and sepals scabrous on margins with minute antrorse hairs | Lindernia procumbens |
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