Polygala wightiana

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Polygala wightiana

Description

Annual, erect or ascending, little-branched herb up to 40 cm high. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 7-20 by 1-2 mm, subsessile, acute, mucronate, with slightly recurved margin, glabrous, l-nerved. Flowers c. 4 mm long, pale yellow to red with green alae. Sepals lanceolate, mucronate, apically sparsely ciliate, alae asymmetric, 3-nerved. Ovary elliptic, notched, (sub)glabrous; Capsule somewhat shorter than the alae, elliptic, strongly notched, c. 3.5 mm long, narrowly winged, (sub)glabrous. Seeds oblong to cylindrical, at micropylar side unequally shortly 3-lobed, black, hairy.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: India present; Lesser Sunda Is. present, Australasia, Deccan Peninsula present, Flores present, N. Queensland present
India (Deccan Peninsula; apparently rare) and Australia (N. Queensland); in Malesia: Lesser Sunda Islands (Flores).

Citation

HASSK. 1863 – In: Miq., Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 1: 170
ADEMA 1966: p. 272. – In: Blumea: f. 17
CHODAT 1893 – In: Monogr.: 358
MATTHEW 1981 – In: Fl. Tamil. Carnatic: 74
WALP. 1842 – In: Rep.: 232
W. & A. 1969 – In: Proc. R. Soc. Queensl.: 128