Polygala persicariaefolia
Content
Description
Annual, erect, mostly branched herb, up to 70 cm high.
Leaves lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 15-50 by 3-10 mm, shortly petioled, mucronate, with flat margin, thin, shortly hairy to (sub)glabrous, in transmitted light finely punctate-dotted.
Flowers 6-7 mm long, light violet turning purple, with whitish alae.
Sepals blunt, ciliolate or the alae sometimes completely glabrous, alae broadly elliptic to ± orbicular, 5-veined.
Ovary elliptic, ciliate;
Capsule somewhat smaller than the alae, c. 5 mm long, broadly elliptic, emarginate, with a rather narrow, veined, sparsely ciliate wing widening apically.
Seeds oblong, at micropylar side with a small, unequally 3-lobed aril, black, hairy.
Distribution
Africa present: Angola (Angola present), Alor present, Asia-Temperate: China South-Central (Yunnan present), Asia-Tropical: India present; Lesser Sunda Is. present (Bali present); New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present); Sumatera (Sumatera present); Thailand (Thailand present), Australasia, E. Java present, Ethiopia present, Flores present, Luzon present, Mt Idjen present, N. Queensland present, S. China present, SE. Asia present, South Africa present, Timor present, Upper Burma present
Africa (Angola via South Africa to Ethiopia), SE. Asia (India, Upper Burma, Thailand), S. China (Yunnan), also in Australia (N. Queensland); in Malesia: Sumatra (northern half), E. Java (Mt Idjen), Lesser Sunda Islands (Bali, Lom-bok, Flores, Timor, Alor), Philippines (Luzon) and throughout New Guinea.
Citation
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DC. 1958 – In: J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc.: 251
F.M.BAILEY 1899 – In: Queensl. Fl.: 78
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Merr. 1935 – In: Pap. Mich. Ac. Sc.: 100
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