Polygala javana
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Description
Perennial, erect, branched herb, up to 80 cm high.
Leaves mostly obovate-oblong, 5-35 by 2-12 mm, subsessile, mucronate, with recurved margins shortly hairy at both sides, in transmitted light finely punctate-dotted.
Flowers 8-10 mm long, with purple crista and yellowish alae.
Sepals mucronate, hairy on both sides, ciliate, the alae broadly ovate, flabellate-veined.
Ovary ± quadrangular with rounded sides, apically notched, hairy all over;
Capsule smaller than the alae, ± quadrangular, apically notched, with a narrow, membraneous, veined margin, hairy.
Seeds ± globular, at micropylar side with an unequally 3-lobed aril, black, hairy.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Jawa (Jawa present); Lesser Sunda Is. present (Bali present); Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka present), Flores present, Kangean Is present, Lombok present, Madura present, S. India present, Sumba present, Sumbawa present, Timor present
Sri Lanka and S. India; in Malesia: Java (from Semarang eastwards, incl. Madura&Kangean Is.), Lesser Sunda Islands (Bali, Lombok, Sumba, Sumbawa, Flores, Timor).
Citation
DC. 1934: Onkruidfl. Suiker: 394: Atlas t. 375
ADEMA 1966 – In: Blumea: 261
MUKHERJEE 1961 – In: Bull. Bot. Soc. Beng.: 44
TRIMEN 1893 – In: Fl. Ceyl.: 80
Miq. 1858 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 124
BENN. 1872 – In: Fl. Br. India: 201
THWAITES 1864: En.: 22
HASSK. 1863 – In: Miq., Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 1: 180
BACKER 1911: Schoolfl. Java: 79
W. & A. 1834 – In: Prod.: 38
BACKER & BAKH.f. 1963 – In: Fl. Java: 198
MATTHEW 1981 – In: Fl. Tamil. Carnatic: 10