Polygala longifolia
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Description
Annual, erect, little-branched herb up to 80 cm high.
Leaves proportionally few, linear to linear-lanceolate, the lowest ones slightly broader, 10-55 by 1-6 mm, subsessile, acute, with recurved margins, (sub)glabrous, l-nerved.
Flowers 3-4, in fruit up to 5 mm long (including the alae), lilac, turning purple, when dry whitish.
Ovary elliptic, glabrous;
Capsule shorter than the alae, broadly elliptic to obovate, c. 3-3.5 mm long, emarginate, with a narrow, veined, glabrous wing widening apically.
Seeds oblong, at micropylar side with a small, unequally 3-lobed aril, dark, hairy.
Distribution
Asia-Temperate, Asia-Tropical: India present; Lesser Sunda Is. present; Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present); Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka present); Thailand (Thailand present), Kai Is present, Luzon present, N. Borneo present, N. Sumatra present, Nepal present, Ryukyu Is present, SW. Celebes present, Sumba present, northern Australia present
Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Thailand, Indochina, China, Ryukyu Is. and northern Australia; in Malesia: N. Sumatra, N. Borneo, SW. Celebes, Philippines (Luzon), Lesser Sunda Islands (Sumba), Moluccas (Kai Is.), and throughout New Guinea.
Notes
The type specimen, collected by COMMER-SON (P, FI) is said to hail from Java, but this is certainly an error, cf. .
Citation
BACKER 1911: Schoolfl. Java: 79
MASAMUNE 1955 – In: En. Trach.: 148
BURK. 1910 – In: Rec. Bot. Surv. India: 98
Merr. 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 384
BENN. 1872 – In: Fl. Br. India: 202
KITAMURA 1955: Fl. Pl. Nepal Himal.: 171
BACKER & BAKH.f. 1963 – In: Fl. Java: 199
DOMIN 1927 – In: Beitr. Fl. & Pfl. Geogr. Austr.: 855
HASSK. 1863 – In: Miq., Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 1: 173
BANERJI 1953 – In: J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc.: 555
ADEMA 1966: p. 266. – In: Blumea: f. 11
HARA 1979 – In: En. Fl. Pl. Nepal: 50
F.M.BAILEY 1899 – In: Queensl. Fl.: 78
DC. 1824 – In: Prod.: 325
GILLI 1980 – In: Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien: 452
CHODAT 1893 – In: Monogr.: 353
LAUENER 1965 – In: Not. R. Bot. Gard. Edinb.: 344
Benth. 1863 – In: Fl. Austr.: 139
WALKER 1976: Fl. Okinawa: 623
ANON. 1983: Icon. Corm. Sin: 183: f. 8783
F.v.M. 1885 – In: Descr. Not. Pap. Pl.: 4
POIR. 1969 – In: Proc. R. Soc. Queensl.: 127
CRAIB 1931 – In: Fl. Siam. En.: 103
MUKHERJEE 1961 – In: Bull. Bot. Soc. Beng.: 40
CHODAT 1893 – In: Monogr.: 358