Epilobium rotundifolium G.Forst.

Species

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Characteristics

Stock rather stout, emitting few to several branching stems up to 25 cm. tall or more; stems often rooting at basal nodes; branchlets pale, terete, glab. or nearly so. Lvs opp., subfloral alt., distant, on broad or slender petioles up to ± 4 mm. long; lamina (8)-10-20 × 8-10-20 mm., orbicular to very broad-ovate, rounded at base, thin, pale green, membr., glab. or slightly puberulous, often reddish below, rather closely, sharply but unevenly toothed. Fls (4)-5-(7) mm. diam.; calyx-lobes ± oblong-lanceolate, < petals; petals white or occ. pale rose, up to 1 cm. long, shallowly emarginate. Capsules ± 3-4 cm. long, glab. or sparsely pubescent; mature peduncles up to 8 cm. long. Seeds papillose.
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Erect several-stemmed perennial to 40 cm high. Stems with dense, spreading, curved hairs, dense in lines decurrent from leaf base, and usually with numerous glandular hairs. Leaves usually opposite, broadly to very broadly ovate, 0.3–2.5 cm long, with small, close distinct teeth, often rounded at apex and above the usually petiolate base. Flowers with inner surface of the hypanthium glabrous. Petals 2–5.5 mm long, white. Capsule 2–5 cm long, glandular pubescent or subglabrous; pedicel 1.5–4 cm long. Seeds narrowly obovoid, 0.5–0.7 mm long, comose.
Herb, often sprawling and branching at base. Stems ± erect, 10-40 cm tall, strigillose all round, densely so in lines decurrent from margins of petioles, often also with a few glandular hairs. Lamina of lf broadly ovate, 3-25 × 3-20 mm. Floral tube 0.5-1.5 mm deep, sparsely glandular-hairy. Petals white, 2-2.5 × 1.5-3.5 mm. Capsule subglabrous to strigillose, 2-5 cm long; fruiting pedicel 1.5-4.2 cm long.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
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Mature height (meter) 0.25 - 0.4
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Environment

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Hardiness (USDA) 7-11

Usage

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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 14 - 30
Germination temperacture (C°) 10 - 15
Germination luminosity light
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Distribution

Epilobium rotundifolium world distribution map, present in Australia and New Zealand

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:612279-1
WFO ID wfo-0000669730
COL ID 6FSM9
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Epilobium rotundifolium Epilobium flaccidum