Plants → Linderniaceae → Lindernia
Lindernia ciliata (Colsm.) Pennell
Brittonia 2:182 (1936)
Conservation Status:
Alien
Name Status:
Current
Brief Description
Amanda Spooner,
Saturday 11 June 2005
Prostrate, stoloniferous annual, herb, to 0.13 m high. Fl. white, Apr. Shallow soils, gravel, sandstone. Disturbed areas. Distribution: N: VB.
Scientific Description
Amanda Spooner, James Carpenter, Gillian Smith and Kim Spence,
Thursday 21 August 2008
Habit. Annual, broad-leaved, prostrate, stoloniferous herbs, up to 0.13 m high.
Leaves. Opposite, decussate, simple, not sheathing (the pairs of petioles meet across the stems), subsessile, petiole to 1 mm long. Leaf blade 21–24 mm long, 7–9 mm wide, undissected, elliptic, base tapering, margins serrate (aristate-serrate), apex acute or obtuse. Blade glabrous (rarely with hairs).
Flowers. Arranged in inflorescences, in racemes (to 30 mm long); predominantly white, very irregular, the floral asymmetry involving the perianth, pedicellate, pedicel 2.5–3 mm long, perianth 2 -whorled. Calyx 2.7–5 mm long, 5 sepals, all sepals joined (but cleft to middle). Corolla 6–13 mm long, 5 petals, all petals joined (2-lipped, with 2 and 3 lobes). Stamens 2 (plus 2 staminodes), adnate to the perianth, all alternating with the corolla parts, free of each other. Anthers dehiscing via longitudinal slits. Ovary syncarpous, superior, 2 -celled. Ovules numerous. Styles 1, simple.
Fruit. Dehiscent (septicidal), a capsule, non-fleshy, 7–19 mm long, to 1 mm wide.
Distribution. Australian: Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland. Alien to Australia, alien to Western Australia. Native: South-east Asia, Malaysia, India, Sri Lanka.
Habitat. Amongst low trees (in Melaleuca minutifolia woodland); in gravelly soil; growing in disturbed natural vegetation.
Flowering period. April (all year in Sri Lanka).
Descriptions are sourced from the Weed Information Network project, Western Australian Herbarium.
Descriptions were generated using DELTA data format and DELTA software: Dallwitz (1980) and Dallwitz, Paine and Zurcher (1993 onwards, 1995 onwards, 1998).
