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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Limosella L.

LIMOSELLA L., 1753

Fls us. stalked and clustered at base of lvs, mostly minute, sts cleistogamous. Calyx subcampanulate, us. 5-toothed, sts 2-lipped. Corolla us. > calyx, tube crowned by spreading limb of 5 ± equal white lobes, upper surface papillose. Stamens us. 4, didynamous. Ovary ± globose, 2-celled at base. Stigma capitate, sts 2-lobed. Capsule minute, septidically dehiscent. Small annual to perennial aquatic herbs of mud or damp ground. Lvs ± clustered in rosettes on slender rhizomes, cylindric or differentiated into petiole and lamina, very susceptible to habitat conditions. Very widespread genus of some 11 spp.

Key

1
Lvs not > c. 5 cm. long, fls distinctly stalked, capsule > calyx
1. lineata
Lvs not < c. 10 cm. long, fls subsessile, capsule included in calyx
2. curdieana

See H. Glück: Limosella-Studien in Engl. Bot. Jb. 66, 1934, 488-566.

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