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Lindernia rotundifolia (L.) Alston, Handb. Fl. Ceylon 6(Suppl.): 214 1931. (syn: Bonnaya rotundifolia (L.) Benth.; Gratiola rotundifolia L.; Ilysanthes hypericifolia Bonati; Ilysanthes madagascariensis Bonati; Ilysanthes oblongifolia Baker; Ilysanthes rotundifolia (L.) Benth.; Lindernia microcalyx Pennell ex Stehle; Lindernia rotundifolia (L.) Mukerjee (ambiguous synonym); Lindernia rotundifolia (L.) Standley & L. Wms. (ambiguous synonym); Torenia rotundifolia (L.) E.J. Cordemoy (synonym); Virchowia cubensis Bartl. & Schenk);
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Common name: Roundleaf Lindernia, Roundleaf Flase Pimpernel • Malayalam: Tsjanga-puspam
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Comores (Mayotte, etc.), Réunion, Mauritius, Madagascar, Kenya, Tanzania, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Uganda, D.R. Congo (Zaire), Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, W-India, S-India, Fiji (introduced), Myanmar [Burma] (Yangon), Ecuador, Peru, Belize, French Guiana, Venezuela (Delta Amacuro), N-Brazil (Amazonas, Acre), NE-Brazil (Maranhao, Ceara, Pernambuco, Bahia, Alagoas), WC-Brazil (Distrito Federal), SE-Brazil (Espirito Santo, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro), S-Brazil (Parana, Santa Catarina), Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Colombia (Amazonas), French Guiana, Paraguay, Lesser Antilles (Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique), Bolivia (Cochabamba, La Paz) as per Catalogue of Life;
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Lindernia rotundifolia occurs in western and southern India – Tamil Nadu (Madurai, Pudukottai, Trichy), Maharashtra (Sindhudurg), Kerala (Vazhani in Thrissur) and Karnataka (S. Kanara). It is also distributed in Bangladesh, Mauritius, Madagascar, Sri Lanka (Cook 1996) and eastern and southeastern Africa (Fisher 1999). It is found in rice fields, particularly after harvesting, along ditches and the edges of ponds and tanks (Cook 1996). This species is mostly distributed in areas below 1,000 m altitude and grow in open wet meadows, marshy areas or forests in Taiwan (Liang 2007).
It is used ornamental plants in aquarium and deserves a place amongst the foliage and it plays an important part removing nitrates from the water. However, this is a very fast growing plant that is classed as a weed by many horticulturists; many companies now refuse to propagate this plant as they look at it as a pest. In the aquarium it deserves a place amongst the foliage and it plays an important part removing nitrates from the water.
. Erect or diffuse herbs, rooting at lower nodes. Leaves 0.8-1.3 x 0.5-1 cm, ovate to orbicular, base and apex rounded, margin crenate to subentire, basally 3-nerved, sessile. Flowers solitary in leaf axils; pedicle 0.5-1 cm long, slender. Calyx deeply divided, lobes 5, 2-2.5 x 1 mm, lanceolate. Corolla c. 1 cm long, white with blue blotches at mouth and lobes; lobes orbicular. Stamens 2; staminodes 2, glandular-scabrid at base. Stigma 2-lamellate. Capsule c. 3 mm long, subglobose, equal to or slightly shorter than calyx. Seeds c. 0.5 mm long, oblong, pale brown. Flowering and fruiting: August-November
Marshy areas
Paleotropics
(Attributions- Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi from India Biodiversity Portal)
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Hooghly Today : Ilysanthes parviflora (L.) Benth. : Attachments (5). 4 posts by 2 authors.
earlier upload – efi thread
ref :
similar species :
This is also Ilysanthes rotundifolia Benth., as in – efi thread.
Hooghly : Ilysanthes rotundifolia (L.) Benth. ??? : Attachments (6). 7 posts by 3 authors. Please read it as Ilysanthes parviflora (L.) Benth. (Bengal Plants, vol2. p769), in place of Ilysanthes rotundifolia (L.) Benth. The Plant List gives Ilysanthes parviflora (L.) Benth., Prodr. 10: 419 1846., as an accepted name.
However others give different author citations:
IUCN Red List (LC) – Ilysanthes parviflora (Roxb.) Benth.
Annonated checklist of the flowering plants of Nepal (Lindernia parviflora (Roxb.) Haines with Ilysanthes parviflora (Roxb.) Benth., Prodr. 10: 419 (1846). as syn.) I fail to reach a satisfactory conclusion right now. “Bengal Plants” has only one species – Ilysanthes parviflora Benth.; F. B. I. iv. 283 Gratiola parviflora F. I. i. 140 Initially i thought it could be I. rotundifolia, because of this site – http://www.natureloveyou.sg/ (source – http://www.natureloveyou.sg/Plants-L.html)
More so because of the illustration found in the pdf – http://www.botanicus.org/page/280327
But, Flora Indica informs – flowers in Gratiola rotundifolia L. are white.
The Plant List is hesitant on G. parviflora – http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2831903 though it suggests that it can be a synonymous with Lindernia parviflora (Roxb.) Haines.
Following efloras seem to support Lindernia parviflora (Roxb.) Haines. –
…, i missed the thread. Ur plant in post is Lindernia parviflora of scrophulariaceae (as per Flora of Orissa by Saxena and Brahmam). I have collected this species growing in moist places near kathajodi river, bhubaneswar and deposited in the Herbarium of Utkal University. So, the accepted name should be Lindernia parviflora (Roxb.) Haines.
I hope i have understood it correctly. The flowers in this thread are too big (please, see the attached screenshot) for Haines’ Lindernia parviflora. Perhaps the confusion lies in the entries of Ilysanthes parviflora Benth. and Ilysanthes rotundifolia Benth.. in Flora of British India, vol4. Both the entries use a common plate – Roxb. Cor. Pl. 3, t. 204.
The following sites seems to be correct –
Thank you Thanks, …, I think you mean to say now that your posted plant in this thread is Ilysanthes rotundifolia (L.) Benth. Yes, …, i think it is Ilysanthes rotundifolia Benth. of Flora of British India.
Lindernia rotundifolia (L.) Alston SN 15March 19 : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (2)
Lindernia rotundifolia (L.) Alston,
pretty herb in the moist areas,
I saw it from western ghats area of Karnataka and Ambasamudram area of Tamilnadu
Flora of Kaiga_ID_23052014 PJ1 : 4 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (1).
ID requested for the following photograph.
Flora of Kaiga_ID_23052014 PJ1
Date/Time-:22/05/14 – 11:30am
Location- Place, Altitude – Kaiga , Uttar Kannada ,Karnataka, 380 mtrs
Habitat- Garden/ Urban/ Wild/ Type- wild
Habit- Tree/ Shrub/ Climber/ Herb – herb
Length- 5 to 7cm Nice photograph. Looks like some Lindernia sp. check for L. parviflora.. yes it looks like L. parviflora. It should be Lindernia rotundifolia as per images at
Please help to identify this Scrophulariaceae herb found on river bank.
I already requested id of the same species in a different place here Date/Time- 10-02-2011 / 11:00 AM It could be Lindernia and very closely resembles both L. rotundifolia, L. crustacea Looks like Lindernia parviflora Lindernia parviflora… It is not L. crustaceae because the leaf margin is entire and penni-nerved. It should be Lindernia rotundifolia as per images at
Indeed Linderna rotudifolia.
What is this riparian Scrophulariaceae? 241109MK3: I have this plant and also eager to know the name, which is a nice aquatic rooted herb got from Alappuzha , Kerala, there can find variety of aquatic plants, The leaves remind me of Veronica anagallis-aquatica Lindernia rotundifolia..? A guess…
i want to go with Lindernia rotundifolia as said by … …Pls check for Rotala indica (Willd.) Koehne because leaves are opp-decussate, no appendages between calyx lobes and flowers axillary. Rotala indica, as far as I remember has very narrow leaves. How about Veronica beccabunga? Identified as Lindernia parviflora as per another thread: efi thread#
It should be Lindernia rotundifolia as per images at
Scrophulariaceae species from Assam KD 11 Mar 2020 : 7 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (3)- around 800 kb each. Attached images are Scrophulariaceae sp.. Please ID of the species.
Date : 29.02. 2020 Location: Assam Family : Scrophulariaceae Genus & species : ?? Habitat: Grows wild on open sunny place Habit : Small herb Check with Lindernia Lindernia rotundifolia (L.) Alston ?? Thanks, … for the id.
I also think close to Lindernia rotundifolia as per comparative images at Lindernia . Goa, August 2021 :: Lindernia for ID :: ARK2021-114: 5 images. This was clicked at Varca, South Goa in August 2021.
Guessing this to be some Lindernia.
Requested to please ID. Lindernia rotundifolia (L.) Alston . 270 ID wild plant Lindernia: 10 images. Check Lindernia rotundifolia Yes, it is Lindernia rotundifolia, dear …, thank you very much for ID my plant, . Regarding identification of the species collected from Khurda Odisha on Aug 24:10: 5 high res. images. Lindernia rotundifolia!
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