Haloragis micrantha
Content
Description
Prostrate, glabrous herb, 5-30 cm long;
Leaves decussate, obovate, orbicular, ovate, or oblong, 3-10 by 1½-4 mm the margin on either side with 1-7 teeth;
Flowers scattered, erect then nodding.
Sepals ovate-triangular, 0.3-0.6 mm, subsaccate-thickened and shallowly cordate at the base, often acuminate.
Petals c. 0.9-1.3 mm, red or rosa.
Stamens 8;
Fruit obovoid-globose to depressed-globose, c. 0.9-1.1 by 0.7-0.9 mm, smooth.
Distribution
Asia-Temperate: Hainan (Hainan present); Korea present; Taiwan (Taiwan present), Asia-Tropical: Malaya present; New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present), Australasia: New South Wales (New South Wales present); Tasmania (Tasmania present); Victoria (Victoria present), E. India present, Gajo Lands present, Japan present, Luzon present, Mindanao present, Mindoro present, Mt Kinabalu present, Mt Papandajan present, N. Borneo present, N. Sumatra present, N. Thailand present, N. Vietnam present, Negros present, New Zealand present, Perak present, Ryukyu Is present, S. & E. Asia present, S. & E. China present, W. Java present
S. & E. Asia (E. India, N. Thailand, S. & E. China, N. Vietnam, Hainan, Taiwan, Ryukyu Is., Korea, Japan), Australia (New South Wales, Victoria), Tasmania, New Zealand; in Malesia: W. Java (Mt Papandajan), N. Borneo (Mt Kinabalu), Celebes, N. Sumatra (Gajo Lands), Philippines (Luzon, Mindoro, Negros, Mindanao), New Guinea. .
KING recorded a doubtful collection by SCOR-TECHINI in Perak (Malaya) of which only a field note was in the Calcutta Herbarium; it has never been found since in Malaya.
KING recorded a doubtful collection by SCOR-TECHINI in Perak (Malaya) of which only a field note was in the Calcutta Herbarium; it has never been found since in Malaya.
Notes
The closest allied species is H. depressa (A. CUNN.) WALP. from Tasmania. THUNBERG'S original description obviously contains some errors (sepals absent, stamens 4).
Citation
BACK. & BAKH.f. 1963 – In: Fl. Java: 266
Miq. 1867: – Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 3: 100
Hook.f. 1860 – In: Fl. Tasm.: 121
BACK. 1942 – In: Bekn. Fl. Java, (em. ed.): fam. 76, p. 2
DC. 1828 – In: Prod.: 66
WILLD. 1797 – In: Sp. Pl.: 690
GIBBS 1914 – In: J. Linn. Soc. Bot.: 74
Merr. 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 221
R. BR. 1845: Fl. Jap. Fam. Nat.: 25
Elmer 1933 – In: Leafl. Philip. Bot.: 3143
Clarke 1878 – In: Fl. Br. Ind.: 430
MEIJDEN 1970 – In: Fl. Thail.: 3
ex SIEB. & ZUCC. 1844 – In: Abh. Bay. Ak. Wiss. M.-Ph. CI.: 133
LARSEN 1963 – In: Dansk Bot. Ark.: 68
STEEN. 1934 – In: Bull. Jard. Bot. Btzg.: 218
THUNB. 1784: Fl. Jap: 69: t. 15
BAILEY 1900 – In: Queensl. Fl.: 555
GUILLAUMIN 1920 – In: Fl. Gén. I.-C.: 715
STAPF 1894 – In: Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot.: 149
STEEN. 1932: pp. 101-102. – In: Trop. Natuur: f. 1-2
CASPERS 1966: p. 60. – In: Pac. Pl. Areas: map 31
King 1897 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng.: 310
TARDIEU-BLOT 1965 – In: Fl. Laos, Camb. & Vietn.: 122
R. BR. 1917: Arfak: 159
Hook.f. 1867: Handb. Fl. New Zeal.: 66
SCHINDL. 1905 – In: Pfl. R.: 29
LARSEN 1966: p. 395. – In: Dansk Bot. Ark.: f. 60
KENG 1970 – In: Mal. Nat. J.: 123
KON. & SIMS 1805: p. 546. – In: Ann. Bot.: t. 12 f. 5
Ridl. 1922 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 692
Merr. 1921: En. Born.: 455
WENT f. 1924 – In: Nova Guinea: 107
STEEN. 1962: p. 187. – In: Endeavour: f. 3
BTH. 1862 – In: Fl. Austr.: 482