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Published In: Hortus Kewensis; or, a catalogue . . . 1: 199. 1789. (Hort. Kew.) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
Contributor Text: YASIN J. NASIR
Flower/Fruit: Fl.Per.: June-July.
Type: Holotype: ‘Levant’, cultivated, 1759, Miller s.n.
Distribution: Distribution: The Balkan peninsula, Caucasia, W. Syria, Turkey, N. Iraq, Iran, Soviet C. Asia, Afghanistan and Kurram.
Comment/Acknowledgements: Usually found along field borders or along roadside ditches, by water places etc. up to 2000 m.
Illustration: Lysimachia dubia Sol. (Illustration)
Map Location: C-6 Kurram: Shalozan, as a weed around fields, Aitchison 642 (K! BM!); Kurram vy., Harsukh 15424 & 15425 (K); Imalkot-Sadda, Rech. f. 30962 (W! E!); Stream banks, August 1934, N.A. Qazilbash s.n. (RAW).

 

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A glabrous erect annual or biennial, up to 80 cm tall, upper half branched; stem fistular, ribbed; branches ascending. Young shoots glandulose. Leaves alternate, opposite to subopposite, under surface faintly glandular-punctate, 30-80 (-135) x 10-30 mm, elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic-ovate, acute or obtusish, glabrous, entire; uppermost leaves linear-lanceolate, 40-60 x 3.5-7.5 mm. Spikes terminal, erect, dense flowered above, lax below, (9-) 11-20 cm long. Flowers pink. Bracts 3-4 mm long, linear-lanceolate, up to 5 mm long in fruit, lower most sometimes leafy and large. Pedicel 1.5-3 mm, up to 4 mm long in fruit. Calyx campanulate, c. 4.5 mm long, 2/3 rd cleft, persistent; lobes lanceolate-obtuse or acutish, glandular streaked, the streaks reddish-brown; inner surface minutely glandulose, margin similar and membranous. Corolla 5-6 mm long, about twice the calyx length, tube broad and short (c. 2 mm long), lobes ligulate-oblong, glandulose. Ovary globose-ovoid, c. 1.6 mm broad, glabrous; style equalling the corolla, persistent, stigma subcapitate. Capsule 3-3.5 mm broad, globose, dehiscence at length irregular. Seeds c. 1 mm long, trigonal, dull black to brown, reticulate-vesiculose.
 
 
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