Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Campanulaceae
Genus
Lobelia L.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Lobelia perpusilla Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 158 (1853)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Pratia perpusilla (Hook.f.) Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 172 (1864)
 Description

Glabrous or ± pilose herb, prostrate or nearly so. Stems rooting at nodes, generally branched, slender, generally glabrous. Lvs subsessile or with very short petioles. Lamina 1.5–4–(5) × 1–2–(3) mm, oblong to ovate-oblong, deeply and narrowly toothed, sometimes entire or slightly toothed, generally glabrous, sometimes ± pilose, membranous or nearly so. Peduncles often very short at anthesis, elongating to c. 20 mm, filiform. Fls solitary. Calyx lobes 1–3 mm long, ± pilose, linear to elliptic. Corolla 4–8–(11) mm long, white or whitish, often dark-veined; tube 5–6 mm long, tapering evenly towards base; lobes 2–3 mm long, linear-lanceolate to elliptic, spreading, acute. Fr. to c. 8 mm diam., subglobose, purplish or greenish.

[From: Webb et al. (1985) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4 as Pratia perpusilla (Hook.f.) Hook.f.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Bibliography
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