Oldenlandia herbacea var. herbacea Dc.

Variety

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Characteristics

Annual or perennial herb, 0.15-0.60 m high. Stems erect, decumbent or spreading, branched. Leaves with blade linear to narrowly linear-ovate, up to 55 x 3.5(-5.0) mm long. Flowers: solitary or paired at nodes; distinctly pedicellate; calyx with tube glabrous, lobes 4; corolla with tube 2.0-3.7 mm long, white, lilac or mauve, tube green; Sep.-Jun. Fruit a subglobose capsule, markedly beaked, glabrous.
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Erect annual herb, 0.15-0.60 m high. Flowers solitary or paired at nodes; distinctly pedicellate. Calyx lobes 4. Corolla tube 2.0-3.7 mm long. Capsule subglobose, markedly beaked. Calyx tube and capsule glabrous. Flowers white, lilac or mauve, tube green.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support -
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.15 - 0.6
Root system -
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Nitrogen fixer -
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Environment

Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture 7-8
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses medicinal
Edible -
Therapeutic use Asthma (unspecified), Fever (unspecified), Bite(Snake) (unspecified), Rheumatism (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

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Distribution

Oldenlandia herbacea var. herbacea world distribution map, present in Angola, Andorra, Benin, Burkina Faso, Bangladesh, Botswana, Central African Republic, Congo, Cabo Verde, Costa Rica, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Honduras, Indonesia, Kenya, Liberia, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique, Mauritius, Namibia, Nigeria, Panama, Puerto Rico, Réunion, Rwanda, Sudan, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, eSwatini, Chad, Togo, Thailand, Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda, Viet Nam, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77172088-1
WFO ID wfo-0000254958
COL ID 5QC6B
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Oldenlandia asperula Oldenlandia heynei Kohautia stricta Oldenlandia dichotoma Hedyotis trichopoda Oldenlandia herbacea var. herbacea