WorldFloraDB - Lysimachia decurrens

Characteristics

Erect, robust, little branched herb, up to 50 cm; stem angular, provided with lenticels. Leaves usually opposite, sometimes subopposite or alternate, membranous, glabrous, narrowly ovate-lanceolate, 3-7 by 1-2.5 cm, subacuminate, acute at both ends, decurrent along the stem; upper surface with point-like glands often confined to the margin; midrib prominent beneath; nerves slightly visible, veins obscure. Flowers in 1-5 terminal, sometimes leafy racemes 10-25 cm long. Pedicels obliquely, erect or recurved, provided with stalked glands, during anthesis 2-7 mm, lengthening to 12-18 mm. The upper flowers are sterile and monstruous. Bracts linear. Calyx lobes lanceolate, acuminate, 3-4 mm, inside with longitudinal black glands. Corolla white or purple, as long as the calyx or smaller, deeply cleft; lobes oblong, rounded, with prominent oblong glands; inside with scattered granular red glands. Stamens free from each other, 4-5 mm; filaments with small sessile glands; anthers 1 mm, rounded, versatile. Style 5 mm, persistent. Capsule longer than calyx, bursting irregularly.

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Herbs perennial, glabrous, 40--90 cm tall. Stems erect, with raised lines descending from base of leaf petioles, woody at base, usually much branched. Leaves alternate, sometimes subopposite; petiole 1--4 cm, narrowly winged; leaf blade lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, 6--13 X 1.5--4 cm, submembranous when dry, sparsely black glandular punctate or striate, especially near margin, base cuneate, apex acute to acuminate. Racemes terminal, 10--25 cm; bracts subulate, 2--3 mm. Pedicel 2--9 mm, elongating to 1--1.8 cm in fruit. Calyx lobes narrowly lanceolate, 3--4 mm, glandular ciliate, abaxially black striate. Corolla white or tinged with purple; tube ca. 1.5 mm; lobes oblong-spatulate, 1--2.5 mm, apex rounded; sinus between lobes subrounded. Stamens long exserted; filaments adnate to base of corolla lobes; anthers ovate, purple, dorsifixed, ca. 1 mm. Ovary ovoid; style ca. 5 mm. Capsule globose or slightly depressed, 3--4 mm in diam. Fl. Apr-May.

Life form

perennial

Growth form

herb

Growth support

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Foliage retention

-

Sexuality

hermaphrodite

Pollination

-

Spread

-

Mature width (meter)

-

Mature height (meter)

0.4 - 0.9

Root system

-

Rooting depth (meter)

-

Root diameter (meter)

-

Flower color

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Blooming months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Fruit color

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Fruiting months

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Nitrogen fixer

-

Photosynthetic pathway

-

Environment

In pastures and fields, along roadsides and trails, in brushwood and hedges, 1000-1500 m (in the Himalayas to 2000 m).

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Hardiness (USDA)

Usage

Uses	medicinal
Edible	-
Therapeutic use	-
Human toxicity	-
Animal toxicity	-

Cultivation

Mode	-
Germination duration (days)	30 - 90
Germination temperacture (C°)	12 - 18
Germination luminosity	-
Germination treatment	-
Minimum temperature (C°)	-
Optimum temperature (C°)	-
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Vigor	-
Productivity	-

Distribution

Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:701098-1
WFO ID	wfo-0001105739
COL ID	6R2NZ
BDTFX ID	-
INPN ID	671608
Wikipedia (EN)
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Lysimachia multiflora Lysimachia nudiflora Lysimachia sinica Lysimachia consobrina Lysimachia recurvata Lysimachia decurrens Lysimachia decurrens var. recurvata Bernardina parviflora Lysimachia decurrens var. eudecurrens

WorldFloraDB 2024

Lysimachia decurrens G.Forst.

Species