Polygala glaucoides
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Description
Erect to prostrate, usually much-branched herb, sometimes woody at base, up to 40 cm high.
Leaves obovate-oblong to lanceolate, 3-45 by 1-8 mm, subsessile, mucronate, with recurved margin, shortly hairy, usually l-nerved.
Flowers (2.5-)3-4.5(-5) mm long, yellow with green and partly red alae.
Sepals lanceolate, acuminate and with a short mucro, cil-iolate, alae asymmetric, 5-nerved.
Ovary ± orbicular, notched, ciliolate with crispate hairs;
Capsule shorter than the alae, usually symmetric, broadly elliptic, 3-3.5 by 2.5-3 mm, notched, narrowly winged, the wings with short curved hairs only.
Seeds ellipsoid, at micropylar side with an unequally 3-lobed aril, black, hairy.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Jawa (Jawa present); Lesser Sunda Is. present; Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present, Singapore present); Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present), Continental SE. Asia present, N. Australia present, Timor present, W. Sumatra present
Sri Lanka, continental SE. Asia, N. Australia; in Malesia: W. Sumatra, Malay Peninsula (Singapore), Java, Lesser Sunda Islands (Timor), Celebes.
Notes
This and the next species are rather similar. ADEMA (l.c.), unaware of the identity of LINNAEUS's P. glaucoides and P. triflora, unfortunately interchanged their names, and furthermore mixed the material of both species. After re-examination of the material of both, it appeared that their ranges are largely exclusive (although I have seen less material than ADEMA). Literature citation and distribution area as cited above must be somewhat inaccurate.
For additional remarks on the synonymy, see the note under 75. P. polifolia.
For additional remarks on the synonymy, see the note under 75. P. polifolia.
Citation
BACKER 1911: Schoolfl. Java: 78
HASSK. 1863 – In: Miq., Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 1: 160
TRIMEN 1893 – In: Fl. Ceyl.: 80
BENN. 1872 – In: Fl. Br. India: 203
KANAI 1966: Fl. E. Himal.: 173
W. & A. 1834 – In: Prod.: 38
THWAITES 1864: En.: 22
THOMPSON 1978 – In: Fl. New South Wales: 15
CHODAT 1893 – In: Monogr.: 387
ADEMA 1969 – In: Proc. R. Soc. Queensl.: 126
BENN. 1872 – In: Fl. Br. India: 203
King 1890 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng.: 130
HASSK. 1863 – In: Miq., Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 1: 172
MUKHERJEE 1961 – In: Bull. Bot. Soc. Beng.: 36
DC. 1824 – In: Prod.: 332
MUKHERJEE 1961 – In: Bull. Bot. Soc. Beng.: 40
Miq. 1858 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 125
HARA 1979 – In: En. Fl. Pl. Nepal: 50
WALP. 1842 – In: Rep.: 234
RIDLEY 1922 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 139
SPRENG. 1826 – In: Syst. Verz.: 167