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5. Lysimachia L., Sp. Pl. 146. 1753. Gen. Pl. ed. 5:72.1754; Duby in DC., Prodr. 8:60.1844; Klatt, Die gattung Lysimachia in Abh. Naturw. Ver. Hamb. 4:1-45.1866; Boiss., Fl. Or. 4:7.1879;Hook. f:,Fl. Brit. Ind. 3:501.1882; Knuth in Engler, Pflanzenr. 22 (IV. 237): 256.1905; Mandel-Mazzetti, in Notes from the Roy. Bot. Gard. 16:51-122.1928; Shteinberg in Schischkin & Bobrov, Fl. URSS. 18:255-256.1952; Bentvelzen in Van. Steenis et al., Males. 1, 6:177.1962; Wendelbo in Rech f., Fl. Iran. 9:31.1965.
YASIN J. NASIR
Asterolinon Hoffmg. & LinkCoxia Endl.Lubinia Vent.Naumburgia MoenchSteironema Rafin.
Annual or perennials, erect or prostrate herbs, rarely shrubby; branches sometimes rooting at the nodes. Leaves entire, opposite, rarely alternate. Flowers yellow, pink, white or red, axillary solitary or two, or in racemes, spikes, panicles or paniculate-corymbs. Calyx and corolla 5(-6-7)-partite, the latter more or less rotate, infundibuliform or campanulate. Stamens 5, attached at the base of the corolla or about the middle, often monadelphous to form a tube-like membrane, glandular or not and adnate to the corolla throat; anthers basifixed or versatile, dehiscing longitudinally or by pores. Ovary subglobose, style slender, stigma capitate. Capsule subglobose, dehiscing by 5 valves or irregularly. Seeds many, small.
c. 200 worldwide species, but cheifly in E. Asia and N. America, being absent from the Artic area and New Zealand. Represented in Pakistan by 7 species, of which Lysimachia vulgaris is adventive in Kashmir.
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Flowers yellow |
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Flowers white or pink-white to rose |
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Plants villous-pubescent. Calyx 7-8.5 mm long. Corolla glandular-punctate, c. ½ or equalling the calyx. Upper half of ovary appressed villous. Capsule pilose |
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Plants glabrous to minutely pubescent-glandulose. Calyx up to 5.5 mm long. Corolla not glandulose,
equalling or exceeding the calyx. Ovary and capsule glabrous or only the tips glandulose |
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Plants erect, glandular-pubescent. Upper leaves
verticellate; leaves up to 12 cm long, oblong-lanceolate or elliptic-ovate. Corolla 10 mm long |
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Plants more or less erect to ascending, glabrous to
subglabrous (shoots sometimes minutely glandular).
Upper leaves opposite or alternate; leaves usually up to 8 cm long, elliptic-ovate to lanceolate or linear. Corolla 4-7 mm long |
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Flowers in lax racemes. Pedicel 3-5 mm long, up to
10 mm in fruit. Anthers sparsely glandular, stipitate. Style 3-3.5 mm long |
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3 Lysimachia pyramidalis |
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Flowers axillary solitary or 2. Pedicel 0.5-1 mm long, up to 3 mm in fruit. Anthers glabrous. Style c. 1.8 mm long |
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4 Lysimachia chenopodioides |
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Perennial. Flowers in short terminal few flowered
corymbs |
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7 Lysimachia prolifera |
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Annual or biennials. Flowers in racemes |
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Glands confined to the margin of the leaves. Filaments longer than the corolla lobes. Pedicel longer than the bract |
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5 Lysimachia lobeloides |
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Glands dotted on the under surface of the leaf. Filaments shorter or ± equalling the corolla lobes. Pedicel as long as the bract or shorter |
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6 Lysimachia dubia |
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