Lindernia procumbens

Lindernia procumbens (Krock.) Philcox, Taxon 14: 30 1965. (Syn: Anagalloides procumbens Krock.; Lindernia erecta (Benth.) Bonati; Lindernia kitaibelii G.Don (Unresolved); Lindernia procumbens (Krock.) Borbás; Lindernia pyxidaria All. (Unresolved); Pyxidaria procumbens (Krock.) Borbás; Tittmannia erecta Benth. (Unresolved); Torenia erecta Buch.-Ham. ex Wall. (Unresolved); Torenia trichotoma Buch.-Ham. ex Wall. (Unresolved); Vandellia erecta Benth.) as per The Plant List Ver.1.1  ;

 

 

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The species occurs from southern Europe, east through Siberia, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, India, Pakistan and Nepal east to southern China (Anhui, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Heilongjiang, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Jilin, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang), Japan, Taiwan (Province of China), Lao PDR, Thailand and Viet Nam and Indonesia (Yamazaki 1990, Cook 1996, Kress et al. 2003, Nguyen et al. 2005, Newman et al. 2007, Ahmed 2009, Kwek et al. 2009, GRIN 2011, NMNH 2011).  

The species is a classic species of nutrient-rich or organic silt in the drawdown zones of lakes, reservoirs and ponds, also occurring on the beds of drained fishponds and oxbow lakes, as well as rice fields, sandy humid waste ground, marshes, river banks and wet low-lying areas.  

(From  IUCN Red List (LC) (Lindernia procumbens (Krock.) Philcox syn. Lindernia palustris Hartmann )

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Flowering and fruiting: January-March 

Along river banks 

Indo-Malesia 

(From India Biodiversity Portal (Lindernia procumbens (Knock.) Borb.) 

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SCROPHULARIACEAE Fortnight: Lindernia procumbens from Uttarakhand_DSR_23 :  Attachments (2). 2 posts by 2 authors.

Lindernia procumbens (Krock.) Haines is a common rainy season weed in Pantnagar.

Now it is in Linderniaceae

Photographed in Pantnagar

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