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2. Lindernia parviflora (Roxb.) Haineswfo-0000446378

Bot. Bihar Orissa 4: 635. 1922; Pennell, Monogr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 5: 29. 1943; T.Yamaz., J . Fac. Sci. Univ. Tokyo, sect. 3. Bot. 13: 4. f. 1, e–g. 1981; in Fl. C.L.V. 21: 84. 1985.— Gratiola parviflora Roxb., Pl. Corom. 3: 3. t.203. 1819.Ilysanthes parviflora (Roxb.) Benth. in DC., Prod. 10: 419. 1846; Bonati in Fl. Gén. I.-C. 4: 430. 1927; Kerr in Fl. Siam. En. 3(3): 183. 1962. Fig. 48: 1–4.

Accepted Name : This is currently accepted.

Description : Annual herbs, 7–15 cm; stems slender, erect or ascending, glabrous. Leaves sessile, linear-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 3–10 by 1.5–3 cm, obtuse or acute at apex, entire or minutely 1–2-dentate, glabrous on both surfaces, palmately 3-nerved or frequently uninerved. Flowers solitary and axillary; pedicels slender 3–10 mm, glabrous, frequently pendent in fruit. Calyx 1.5–2 mm long, 5-lobed almost to the base; lobes linear-lanceolate, acute, glabrous. Corolla white, 4–5 mm long; upper lip ovate, shallowly bilobed; flower lip with three oblong lobes. Stamens 2 posterior; anther-loculi obtuse at the ends. Staminodes 2 anterior, produced from appendage only, clavate, ca 0.5 mm, frequently each with a rudimentary filament at the middle. Capsule ellipsoidal, 3–4 by 1.5–2 mm, 1.5–2 times as long as persistent calyx. Seeds narrowly ellipsoidal, ca 0.2 by 0.12 mm, reticulate.

Thailand : NORTHERN: Mae Hong Son (Ban Nam Phiang Din), Chiang Mai (Mae Ping, Doi Saket, Pha Mon-Doi Inthanon).

Distribution : India (type), Nepal, Vietnam.

Ecology : Humid sandy beaches and rice-fields, lowlands and up to 1,000 m alt.