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16. Lindernia cambodgiana (Bonati) Philcoxwfo-0000446499

Taxon 19: 649. 1970; T.Yamaz., J. Fac. Sci. Univ. Tokyo, Sect. 3. Bot. 13: 29. f. 9, a–d. 1981; in Fl. C.L.V. 21: 102. 1985.— Ilysanthes cambodgina Bonati, Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 55: 542. 1908; in Fl. Gén. I.-C. 4: 429. 1927, incl. var. ramosissima Bonati; Barnett in Fl. Siam. En. 3(3): 182. 1962. Fig. 48: 14–16.

Accepted Name : Vandellia cambodgiana (Bonati) Eb.Fisch., Schäferh. & Kai Müll.
Willdenowia 43: 233. 2013.

Description : Stems slender, erect or ascendent, 8–30 cm, glabrous except near the nodes with sparsely hispid hairs. Leaves sessile, linear-lanceolate, lanceolate or rarely ovate-oblong, 4–20 by 1–3 mm, obtuse to subacute at apex, obscurely scattered-dentate, glabrous or sparsely hirsute on both surfaces, prominently uninerved, with obsolete pinnate nervelets. Flowering shoots with flowers solitary and axillary, or in umbel-like short racemes; pedicels slender, 1–4 mm in flower, 4–10 mm in fruit, glabrous or sparsely hirsute. Bracts leaf-like, small. Calyx 3 mm long in ower, 4–5 mm long in fruit, irregularly 5-lobed; upper three lobes cleft nearly to the base; flower two neaxly to the middle, glabrous to subdensely hirsute; all lobes lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla violet, 5–6 mm long; upper lip broadly ovate, rounded at apex; flower lip with three rounded lobes. Stamens 2, posterior, anthers each with connective of the flower cell produced into a thin projection. Staminodes 2, anterior, filiform, each with a short clavate spur arising near the middle. Capsule ovoid, 3–4 by 2.5–3 mm, shorter than persistent calyx. Seeds ellipsoidal, ca 0.2 by 0.1 mm, scariose-tuberculate.

Thailand : SOUTH-EASTERN: Chon Buri (Si Racha), Chanthaburi (Makham), Trat (Bo Rai).

Distribution : Cambodia (type), Laos, Vietnam.

Ecology : Edge of forests, sandy soil.